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SCHOOL LAWS 



ACTS OF 1 91 2 




Issued by the Department of Education 



Circular of Information No. 77 



ROSCOE PRINTING HOUSE 
ESSEX JUNCTION, VT. 



SCHOOL LAWS 

ACTS OF 1912 



Issued by the Department of Education 



Circular of Information No. 77 



ROSCOE PRINTING HOUSE 
ESSEX JUNCTION, VT. 



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APR 2 1914 



DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

STATE OF VERMONT 

MONTPELIER 



To Teachers and School Officers: 

The following pages comprise the school laws enacted 
by the General Assembly of 1912. Your attention is called 
particularly to modifications of the laws relating to Board of 
Education, Distribution of School Funds, School Attendance, 
School Registers, Auditing School Accounts, Instruction in 
Agriculture, Domestic Science and Manual Training, and Teach- 
er Training Courses. 

Important changes in or additions to previous acts are 
indicated by head notes. 

Very respectfully yours 
MASON S. STONE, 

Superintendent of Education. 



CONTENTS. 



Subjects. 
Appeals from Courses in Academies 
Application of Laws to Incorporated Districts 
Auditing School Accounts 
Board of Education 
Castleton Normal School 
Colleges, appropriations for 
Courses in Agriculture, Domestic Science, etc. 
Deaf, Dumb, and Blind 
Distribution of State Aid 
Duties (^ School Officers 
Feeble minded Children 
Johnson Normal School 
Lanterns and Slides 

Legalizing meetings in Incorporated Districts 
Rebates for Advanced Instruction 
School Attendance 
School Directors 
Settlement of Accounts 
State Agricultural, College 
State School of Agriculture 

(Rutland or Addison Co.) 
State School of Agriculture, Randolph 
Teacher Training Courses 
Teachers Retirement Fund 
Transportation of High School students 
Union Superintendents 



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SCHOOL LAWS ENACTED BY THE GENERAL 
ASSEMBLY, 1912. 



NO. 62. 
CREATION OF A BOARD OF EDUCATION. 



Creation of a board of education. 
Terms of office. 

Appointment of superintendent of education. 
Organization of board. 
Duties of superintendent of education. 
Inspection of state funds appropriated to colleges. 
Employment of inspectors and lecturers. 
Compensation of members. 

Determination of salary and expenses of super- 
intendent. 
Appropriation, $7000 to be apportioned by board. 
Reorganization of unions by board. 
Approval of union superintendents by boards. 
Control of normal schools by board. 
Receipt and expenditure of normal school funds. 
Establishment of practice departments. 
Free tuition in normal schools. 
Principals of academies to make returns. 
Certification of high school teachers. 
Classification of high schools and academies. 
Approval of courses by board. 
Penalties. 
Application of laws. 



AN ACT TO CREATE A BOARD OF EDUCATION AND 
TO PRESCRIBE ITS POWERS AND DUTIES. 

It is hereby enacted hy the General Assembly of the State of 
Vermont : 

Section 1. A board of education is hereby created con- 
sisitn^ of five members to be appointed by the governor, with 
the advice and consent of the senate. Not more than three of 
the members of said board shall be engaged professionally in 
educational pursuits. 

Section 2. The terms of office of the members first ap- 



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pointed to said board shall expire, two in two years, two in four 
years and one in six years, from January 1st, 1913, and subse- 
quent appointments shall be for six years. Vacancies occurring^ 
when the general assembly is not in session shall be filled by 
the governor and appointments to fill such vacancies shall ter- 
minate on the first day of January after the meeting of the gen- 
eral assembly next following such appointments. 

Sec. 3. Said board shall organize by electing a chairman, 
vice-chairman and a treasurer, and shall, at stated times and 
places, hold at least four regular meetings annually, and shall 
hold special meetings at such times and places as the board ap- 
points and its business demands. Said board shall make all 
regulations, not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, 
covering its meetings and the performance of its duties. The 
treasurer shall give bonds to such an amount as said board and 
state treasurer may designate. 

Sec. 4. Said board shall appoint a superintendent of 
education, fix his salary, and may remove him for cause, and his 
term of ofiice shall be for three years and until his successor is 
appointed and qualified. The term of office of the superintendent 
first so appointed shall begin December first, 1914. The super- 
intendent elected by the present session of the general assembly 
shall be subject to the provisions of this act relating to a super- 
intendent appointed by said board. 

Sec. 5. The superintendent of education shall devote his 
whole time to the duties of the office, shkll be the executive of- 
ficer of the board of education, shall have the care and custody 
of the records, files and documents of the board, shall have the 
powers and assume the duties of the superintendent of education 
under the statutes now in force and shall have the supervision 
of all educational work supported in whole or in part by the 
state, except as otherwise provided, and shall make full re- 
ports to the board, with recommendations for the improvements 
of the system of public education. 

Sec, 6. Said board shall inspect and report upon the ex- 
penditures of the state funds appropriated for the use of schools 
and collieges in this state, and shall present to the general as- 
sembly, on the first day of each biennial session, a report of its 
official acts for the preceding two years, a statement of the con- 
dition of schools under its care and the expenditure of school 
moneys, with such suggestion and recommendations for the im- 
provement of education in this state as it deems proper, and shall 
submit an estimate of the expenses of the board for the ensuing 
two years. 



Sec. 7. Said board shall employ such inspectors, clerks, 
lecturers and other officers, and make such rules and regulations 
covering their duties and employment as it deems necessary; 
and may publish and distribute such bulletins and circulars or 
periodicals of educational information as it deems proper. 

Sec. 8. Each of the members of said board of education 
shall receive four dollars a day for the time actually spent in 
attending to the duties thereof, and shall be paid his actual ex- 
penses incurred in the performance of his duties. 

Sec. 9. Said board shall fix the annual salary of the super- 
intendent of education and the allowance for necessary expenses 
incurred in the performance of his official duties, shall deter- 
mine the amount that may be expended for clerical service in his 
office and shall certify the amounts so designated for salary, ex- 
pense and clerical service to the auditor of accounts who shall 
pay the same as now provided by section 6149 of the Public 
Statutes. 

Sec. 10. Seven thousand dollars is hereby appropriated 
annually, and such sum shall be appropriated by said board for 
summer schools for elementary teachers, for educational meet- 
ings, for agricultural instruction, for inspection of high schools, 
for payment of services and expenses of said board, and for such 
other purposes as said board may direct, and said board shall 
certify to the auditor of accounts the amounts of such appropri- 
ation as are apportioned for the various purposes herein stated. 
The disbursement of the amounts apportioned for summer 
schools, educational meetings and agricultural instruction shall 
be made by the superintendent of education, and the disburse- 
ments for high school inspection and for other purposes shall be 
made by said board and shall be paid on orders drawn by the 
auditor of accounts on presentation of proper vouchers. 

Sec. 11. Said board shall, on application made to it by 
the school boatd of two or more towns to form or reorganize a 
union for school supervision, appoint a time and a place for a 
hearing and, if in the judgment of the said board of education 
the educational interests of such towns can be best subserved by 
the formation of the union, it shall order the school boards of 
the various towns which should form a union, by written notice 
sent to the chairman of each, to meet on a date and at a place 
designated by said board and to organize a joint committee in 
accordance with chapter 42 of the Public Statutes, and a union 
so organized shall be legal to all intents and purposes whether 
or not the various towns making such application were repre- 
sented at such meeting by their respective boards. But no 
union shall be formed as herein provided unless a majority of 



the school directors of the towns inljerested agree to the for- 
mation of such union. 

Sec. 12. The board of education shall make and establish 
regulations governing the examination and qualification of union 
superintendents, and no person not approved by the board of 
education shall be eligible for election as a union superinten- 
dent; and a superintendenc elected under the provisions of this 
chapter may be removed for such cause as a majority of said 
joint committee^ with the approval of the board of education, 
deem sufficient. 

Sec. 13. Section 949 of the Public Statutes is hereby 
amended so as to read as follows: 

Sec. 949. The board of education shall have all power and 
duties formerly granted to the state board of education, and shall 
have full control and management of the normal schools and 
of any state home or state domestic science school that may be 
established, and shall have power to make such regulations gov- 
erning said institutions as the interests of the state demand. It 
shall establish courses of study for such schools and revise the 
same when necessary, shall determine the conditions for admis- 
sion to and for graduation from such schools, provide for the 
issue of certificates to all persons of good moral character who 
pass the examination required for graduation, and may revoke 
the same for good and sufficient cause shown. It shall select 
and employ all teachers for such schools, and shall dismiss them 
when the interests of the school require. It shall have and ex- 
ercise such powers as are needed for properly conducting such 
schools, and shall report to the general assembly the condition 
and progress of such schools and the money received and ex- 
pended for the same. 

Sec. 14. Section 950 of the Public Statutes, as amended 
by section 6 of No. 34 of the acts of 1908, is hereby amended so 
as to read as follows : 

Sec. 950. The board of education, by its treasurer, shall 
receive all moneys appropriated by the state for the support of 
the normal schools, and all moneys accruing to such schools from 
other sources, and appl^' the same for the benefic of such schools. 

Sec. 15. Section 951 of the Public Statutes is hereby 
amended so as to read as follows: 

Sec. 951. The board of education may establish prac- 
tice departments in connection with the normal, schools. The 
board shall expend for the support of such departments such 
part of the moneys appropriated by the state and accruing from 



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other sources as is necessary. It shall agree wdth the board of 
school directors of a town in which a normal school is located 
for the use of school property and arrange with said board of 
school directors. for the maintenance of such practice depart- 
ments. 

Sec. 16. Section 953 of the Public Statutes is herebjr 
amended so as to read as follows: 

Sec. 953. A person who declares his intention to com- 
plete a course of study in a normal school, and to teach in the 
state for two years after graduation therefrom, and who com- 
plies with the conditions established by the board of education 
for the admission of students shall be entitled to free tuition in 
the normal school of his choice. Other persons may be admit- 
ted to the normal schools in the discretion of said board on con- 
ditions and tuition fees fixed by it. 

Sec. 17. Section 1058 of the Public Statutes, as amended 
by section 20 of No. 65 of the acts of 1910, is hereby amended so 
as to read as follows: 

Sec. 1058. Principals of academies shall return to the 
superintendent of education, annually, on or before the tenth 
day of July, answers to the statistical inquiries addressed to 
them by the board of education. 

Sec. 18. The board of education shall define the classi- 
fication of high school teachers, and, through the superintendent 
of education, award certificates valid for five years to properly- 
qualified teachers, and, after July 1, 1913, no person shall be 
eligible to teach in a high school who does not hold a high school 
teacher's certificate, unless already engaged in teaching in suck 
school. 

Sec. 19. Section 1021 of the Public Statutes is hereby 
amended so as to read as follows: 

Sec. 1021. The board of education shall deterrnine* the 
classification and standard of high schools and academies and 
may make regulations governing recitation periods and fix the- 
minimum amount of apparatus for an approved high school or 
academy. An interested person may appeal to said board from 
the action of the board of school directors in regard to the high 
school or academy ciesignated for attendance or the tuition to 
be paid for advanced instruction. Its decision on such appeal 
shall be final. No person shall be deprived of such instruction 
by reason of age. 

Sec. 20. Section 1016 of the Public Statutes, as amended! 



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by Section 1 of No. 39 of the acts of 1508, is hereb}' amended sa 
as to read as follows : 

Sec. 1016. The course of instruction in such schools shall 
begin immediately at the completion of the elementary course 
of not less than eight years. Each school shall be considered 
a single school and for which a single register shall be kept and 
returned according to law, and each shall be maintained at least 
thirty-six weeks in the school year, and shall be taught by a 
teacher or teachers of competent ability, good morals and legal 
certification, and, in each, instruction shall be given in English 
language and literature, higher mathematics, history and natural 
sciences ; and instruction may be given in ancient and modern 
languages, political, t^ocial, moral and domestic sciences, agri- 
cultural and commercial subjects, music and physical culture 
and in the fine and mechanical arts. The course or courses 
and subjects of stud}" for each school shall be approved by the 
board of education, and each school shall conform to the approv- 
ed courses and subjects. An educational institution legally in- 
corporated and providing instruction equivalent to that of a 
high school of any class, shall be an academy. 

Sec. 21. Section 1109 of the Public Statutes is hereby 
amended so as to read as follows: 

Sec. 1109. A member of the board of education, the super- 
intendent -of education, a town or union superintendent, a prin- 
cipal of or a teacher in a public school , or any person officially 
connected with the direction of such school, shall not directly 
or indirectl}' receive any gratuity or compensation for recom- 
mending or procuring the adoption of a school book or the pur- 
chase of school apparatus, furniture or other supplies to be used 
in a public school, and shall not allow to be paid or accept pay- 
ment of his hotel or travelling expenses by any book publish- 
ing or school supply house, company or corporation, or by any 
one of its agents. A person who violates a provision of this 
section shall be fined not m.ore than one hundred dollars nor less 
than tw:enty-five dollars. 

Sec. 22. Wherever in the acts of 1908, 1910 or 1912 ref- 
erence is made to the state board of education, the same shall 
be treated as designating and referring to the board of education. 

Sec. 23. Sections 914 and 6146 of the Public Statutes 
and sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 of No. 34 of the acts of 1908, and all 
.acts or pa'rts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby re- 
pealed. 

Sec. 24. This act shall take effect from its passage. 

Approved February 13, 1913. 



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NO. 63. 

DUTIES OF SCHOOL OFFICIALS 

Section 1. School board of an incorporaced district, not in a 
union, to appoint a superintendent. 

Section 2. Members of school boards to be paid from school 
funds and to have their accounts audited, as members, 
on or before June 30. 

Clerk of school board to furnish list of children of 
school age to the school board and a list to the 
superintendent, also a list of the children desig- 
nated for a particular school to the teacher there- 
of who shall insert the names in the register. 
Town clerk to deliver registers to superinten- 
dent for distribution. 

Teacher to answer questions and to deliver regis- 
ter to chairman of school board. 
Chairman to draw orders for payment of teacher. 
Chairman to deliver registers to superintendent. 
School board to submit its account to the auditors; 
auditors to audit same on request and to give cer- 
tificate if found correct; school board to make its 
report within 20 days; no other report or audit 
required. 

Annual meeting of a school union may be held be- 
tvv'een April 1 and May 31, as determined by 
vote of joint committee. 



Section 3 

Section 4 
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Section 9 



AN ACT TO AMEND CERTAIN SECTIONS OF THE PUB- 
LIC STATUTES, RELATING TO SCHOOLS. 

It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of 
Vermont: 

Section 1. Section 931 of the PubHc Statutes, as amended 
by section 1 of No. 65 of the acts of 1910, is hereby amended 
so as to read as follows : 

Sec. 931. The board of school directors of a town or of 
an incorporated school district, not in a union, shall annually, 
on or before the third day of July, appoint a superintendent of 
schools, fix his compensation and, within five days thereafter, 
file for record in the town clerk's office a certificate of such ap- 
pointment. 



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Sec. 2. Section 996 of the Public Statutes is hereby 
amended so as to read as follows : 

Sec. 996. The compensation of school directors, which 
shall be paid by orders drawn by the school board, shall be sucli 
sum as the town votes at the annual town meeting for thetime 
actually spent in the performance of their duties; and their ac- 
counts shall be audited at the time of audi ting. the school ac- 
count of said school board. 

Sec. 3. Section 1002 of the Public Statutes, as amended 
by section 10 of No. 65 of che acts of 1910, is hereby amended 
so as to read as follows: 

Sec. 1002. Immediately upon completing such list, said 
clerk shall furnish a list, with names in alphabetical order and 
the age in years of each child, to the school board which shall 
designate the school each child shall attend and shall, on or 
before the opening of the fall term, furnish the tieacher of a pub- 
lic school a list of the children designated to attend such school, 
together with the age of each chjld, and said teacher shall in- 
scribe on the sheet in the register of such school the names and 
ages so furnished. Said clerk shall also furnish the superin- 
tendent of schools a list of the children of school age in town, 
with names in alphabetical order, the age in years, and the school 
designated for each child. 

Sec. 4. Section 1052 of the Public Statutes as amended 
by section 17 of No 65 of the acts of 1910, is hereby amended 
so as to read as follows : 

Sec. 1052. Said superintendent shall annually, in the 
month of June, transmit to each town clerk a sufficient number 
of such registers to supply the schools in his town, who shall re- 
ceipt therefor and deliver the same to the town or union super- 
intendent on his request. Upon receiving such registers said 
town or union superintendent shall, within ten school days after 
the opening of each term of school, deliver the assigned regis- 
ter to the teacher thereof. 

Sec. 5. Section 1053. of the Public Statutes is hereby 
amended so as to read as follows: 

Sec. 1053. A teacher receiving a register from the town 
or union superintendenc of schools shall keep therein, in the 
prescribed form, a record of the daily attendance of each pupil, 
enter there in correct answers to the interrogatories addressed to 
the teachers and deliver such register to the chairman of the 
school board at the end of each term ; the finall return shall he- 
so delivered on or before the thirtieth day of June. 



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Sec. 6. Section 1054 of the Public Statutes, as amended 
"by section 2 of No. 45 of the acts of 1908, is hereby amended so 
as to read as follows: 

Sec. 1054. Said chairman shall examine the register, and, 
if it is filled out and properly certified by the teacher, he shall 
draw an order in favor of such teacher for services rendered. 

Sec. 7. Section 1055 of the Public Statutes, as amended 
by section 18 of No. 65 of the acts of 1910, is hereby amended 
so as to read as follows: 

Sec. 1055. Said chairman shall immediately deliver such 
register to the town or union superintendent, said superinten- 
dent shall enter therein correct answers to the interrogatories 
to be answered by him, the name of the teacher of the school 
■during the year for which such register was kept, the date and 
character of such teacher's certificate, and certify to the cor- 
rectness of such entry, and said superintendent shall file the 
register so completed in the office of the town clerk on or 
before the third day of July. 

Sec. 8. On or before the thirtieth day of June the school 
iDoard of a town, before submitting its itemized statement to 
the town clerk, shall submit its account for the preceding school 
year to the auditors of such town who shall, on notice of the 
school board, meet and examine its account, and, if found cor- 
rect, shall give to said board a certificate to that effect, and said 
board shall include such certificate in its report to the town 
which shall be made, annually, within twenty days, and no 
other audit or report shall be required. No school director shall 
receive compensation for his services or be eligible for re-elec- 
tion for the year ensuing if he neglects or refuses to have his own 
account as school director or the account of the school board 
audited as herein provided. 

Sec. 9. The annual meeting of the joint committee of a 
supervision union shall be held at such time as said joint com- 
mittee may vote, provided such annual meeting is not earlier 
than the first day of April or later than the thirty-first day of 
May. 

Sec. 10. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this 
act are hereby repealed. 

Sec. 11. This act shall take effect from its passage. 

Approved February 21, 1913. 



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NO. 64 

TEACHER TRAINING COURSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF 
RURAL SCHOOLS. 



Section 1. Teacher training courses placed under control of 
board of education; no limit to number; two 
schools, graded, necessary for observation andi 
practice. 

Section 2. Graduates of high schools and academies may- 
have their tuitions paid. 

Section 3. Graduates taking the course entitled to five-year 
certificates; seniors, to four-year certificates; a 
certificate valid for continuous teaching in the 
same town and may be renewed on expiration if 
holder has taught fifty weeks in the state. 

Section 4. State aid not exceeding $800 for class of eight ; state 
aid for a class of less than eight. 

Section 5. Persons who have completed two years in high 
f schools, or academies, of the first class may be ad- 
mitted. 

Section 6. Persons holding fi.rst grade or life certificates may 
be admitted. 



AN ACT TO PROVIDE TEACHER TRAINING COURSES 
FOR THE BENEFIT OF RURAL SCHOOLS. 

It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of 
Vermont : 

Section 1. Section 1 of No. 61 of the acts of 1910 is here- 
by amended so as to read as follows: 

Section 1. The school board of a town maintaining a 
high school of the first class, or the board of trustees of an aca- 
demy of the first class, may establish and maintain a teacher 
training course in connection with such high school or academy, 
but under the direction and with the approval of the state board 
of education which shall prescribe the studies to be pursued and 
appoint the special teacher to be employed. In its approval 
of the establishment of such courses, consideration of the needs 
of the different sections of the state shall be given by said board 
and preference shall be given such high schools or academies 
as can serve the rural schools to the highest advantage, but no 
approval shall be given a high school or academy which has leaS 
than two elementary schools, which are graded and are avail- 



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able for observation and practice purposes, and such approval 
may be revoked or discontinued whenever, in the judgment of 
said board, such teacher training course is impracticable for 
the state. For the purposes of this act an incorporated school 
district or a city shall be considered a town, and a state agri- 
cultural school or a state domestic science school shall be con- 
sidered the same as an academy. 

Sec. 2. A graduate of an approved high school or academy 
of the first class, or a person of equivalent education, may be 
admitted to a teacher training course for a one-3'ear course and 
shall be under the same regulations and laws as a regular stu- 
dent in such school; and, provided said graduate or person re- 
sides in a town which does not provide a teacher training course, 
may have his tuition paid for such course in a high school, or 
in an academy, in the same manner and under the same laws 
and conditions as pertain to students residing in towns not 
maintaining high schools. 

Sec. 3. A graduate from a teacher training course may re- 
ceive from the superintendent of education, on the recommenda- 
tion of the union superintendent of the town in which such course 
was maintaired, a certificate which shall be a license to teach in 
the public schools of the state for a period of four years, provid- 
ed said graduate was a senior in such high school or academy at 
the time of taking the course; or a certificate which shall be a 
license to teach in the public schools of the state for a period of 
five years, provided said person was a graduate of an approved 
high school or academy of the first class, or a pers^on of equivalent 
educacion, at the time of taking the course; and a graduate of 
a high school or an academy of the first class, who has received 
equivalent training, may receive from said superintendent a 
license of equal grade and character. A certificate of either 
grade shall be valid so long as the holder teaches continuously 
in the same town. At the expiration of a certificate of either 
grade a new certificate of the same grade may be granted, pro- 
vided the holder has taught fifty weeks in the public schools of 
the state. 

Sec. 4. When the chairman of the board of school direc- 
tors of a town, or of the board of trustees of an academy, cer- 
tifies, under oath, to the auditor of accounts that an approved 
teacher training course was maintained during the preceding 
year closing June thirtieth, said auditor shall draw an order in 
favor of the treasurer of such town or academy for an amount 
not exceeding eight hundred dollars, provided said board of 
school directors, or trustees of an academy, have expended at 
least two hundred dollars in salary for such special teacher in 



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addition CO the amount to be received from the state, and pro- 
vided the class in such course has not been less than eight in 
number and was composed of members of the senior class of 
such high school or academy and graduates of approved high 
schools or academies of the first class. When the chairman of 
the board of school directors of a town, or'of the board of trus- 
tees of an academy, certifies, under oath, that such course was 
maintained, that the' class was less than eight, and that it was 
composed as hereinbefore specified, said auditor shall draw an 
order in favor of the treasurer of the town, or of the academy, 
for an amount equal to one hundred dollars for each member 
of such class, provided said board of school directors, or trus- 
tees of c*A academy, have expended in salary for such special 
teacher at_ least two hundred dollars and an amount equal to 
-as many times one hundred dollars as the number in such class 
was less than eight. 

Sec. 5. A person who has completed, without conditions, 
two years of a four- year course in a high school or in an academy 
•of the first class, and who has taught fifty weeks in public schools, 
may be admitted to a teacher training course, or to a one-year 
■course in a normal school, and, on completion of the same, may 
receive, '^on recommendation of the specialist of such teacher 
training course or of the principal of such normal school, a cer- 
tificate which shall be a license to teach in the public schools 
«ot the state for a period of two years ; or, if such person completes 
a two-year course in such normal school, he may receive, on 
recommendation of the principal thereof, a certificate which 
shall be a license to teach in the public schools of the state for 
a period of four years. 

Sec. 6. A person, whether a resident or not of a town in 
which a high school is maintained, who has not completed three 
years in an approved high school or academy, but who has re- 
ceived a first grade or a life certificate, maybe admitted to a 
teacher teaching course and, on completing the same, may re- 
ceive, on recommendation of the union superintendent, a li- 
cense to teach in the public schools of the state for a period of 
four years, and said person, provided no teacher training course 
is maintained in the town in which he resides, may have his 
tuition paid for such course in the same manner and under the 
same laws and conditions as pertain to a graduate of a high 
school or academy residing in a town not maintaining a 
teacher training course. 

Sec. 7. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act 
arj hereby repealed. 



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Sec. 8. This act shall take effect from its passage. 
Approved February 11, 1913. 



NO. 65. 

APPROPRIATION FOR REPAIRS ON DORMITORY 
AT CASTLETON. 

Section 1. Appropriation, $3,000. 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE THE SUM THEREIN NAMED 
FOR FURNITURE FOR AND REPAIRS ON THE DOR- 
MITORY OF THE NORMAL SCHOOL AT Cx\STLETON. 

It is hereby enacted hy the General Assembly of the State of 
Vermont : 

Section 1. The auditor of accounts with the approval 
of the governor is hereby directed to draw an order in favor of 
the treasurer of the state board of education for the sum of three 
thousand dollars, in pa^^ment for furniture for and repairs on 
the dormitory of the normal school at Castleton. 

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. 

Approved Februarj' 19, 1913. 



NO. 66. 

APPROPRIATION TOWARD DORMITORY AT JOHN- 
SON. 

Section 1. Appropriation $566.65. 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE A CERTAIN SUM OF MONEY 
FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE JOHNSON NORMAL 
SCHOOL. 

// is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of 
Vermont. 

Section 1. The auditor of accounts shall, on July 1, 1913^ 
draw an order in favor of the state board of education for the 
sum of five hundred sixty-six dollars and sixty-five cents, for the 
benefit of the state normal school at Johnson, to be expended in. 



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in completing a dormitory building and grading the grounds 
about the same; said sum being the amount refunded to the 
state treasury by said school, September 20, 1911, as the un- 
expended balance of requisition. 
Approved February 19, 1913. 



Section 


2. 


Section 


3. 


Section 


4. 


Section 


5. 


Section 


6. 


Section 


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Section 


8. 


Section 


9. 



NO. 67. 

CREATION OF STATE SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE IN 
ADDISON OR RUTLAND COUNTY. 

Section 1. Establishment on approval of Governor and Edu- 
cational commission. 

Control by and duties of board of trustees. 
Compensation and report. 

Location by governor and Educational commission. 
Appropriation, $20,000 for construction. 
Appropriation, $10,000 for maintenajnce. 
Payments. 

Conditions governing establishment. 
Towns authorized to appropriate money for es- 
tablishment of school. 

.AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A STATE SCHOOL OF AGRI- 
CULTURE IN ADDISON OR RUTLAND COUNTY. 

It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of 

Vermont. 

Sec. 1. A state school of agriculture is hereby created and 
established with the approval of the governor and the educa- 
tional commission appointed by the governor in accordance 
with the joint resolution approved November 19, 1912, for the 
purpose of developing the agricultural resources of the state 
through practical instruction in agriculture, including tillage, 
crop-raising, gardening, orcharding, forestry, dairying, stock- 
raising, farm management, marketing and the allied subjects 
of domestic science and the manual arts. 

Sec. 2. The board of trustees of said school of agricul- 
ture shall be the same board thait conducts the affairs of the 
school of agriculture at Randolph. Said board of trustees shall 
.adjust their present organization in such respects as may be 



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necessary for the general supervision, management and control 
ot the school hereby established and all of its affairs, and to 
ca,rry out its purposes and objects ,may: 

(1) Appoint a person , of the town where said school is 
located, and at its pleasure remove him, who shall be called the 
local director, whose duties shall be prepcribed by said board 
and who shall at all times be under the control and direction of 
said trustees. 

(2) Employ and, at its pleasure, remove, teachers, ex- 
perts, chemifcts, laborers, servants and all necessary clerks and 
assistants. 

(3) Adopt rules and regulations for the management of 
said school, not inconsistent with the purposes and objects of 
this act. 

(4) Prescribe the courses of instruction and the methods 
of investigation and experiment to be followed in such school 
and establish the diplomas to be conferred on graduation; and 
said trustees shall fix the wages of a 11 persons appointed by them 
or by said local director under their supervision. 

Sec. 3. _ Said trustees shall receive for their services in 
connection with said school four dollars for each day actually 
spent, and their necessary traveling and other expenses incurred 
by them in the discharge of their duties. 

The auditor of accounts shall, on the last day of each 
quarter of the fiscal year audit and allow to said trustees their 
several accounts for services and expenses, and shall draw an 
order in payment for the same. Said trustees shall make full 
report biennially to the general assembly of the work done dur- 
ing the preceding two years, the condition of said school and 
its needs, and the condition of its property; and in its said re- 
port shall furnish a detailed statement of the financial condi- 
tion of sa!id school, the moneys expended and for what purposes. 

Sec. 4. The governor and said educational commission 
may locate said school in any town of its selection in Addison 
or Rutland County, and it is hereby authorized and empowered 
to purchase, lease, hold, control and sell, in the name of the state 
arid for such school, real and personal estate for the use of the 
same. Said board is also authorized and empowered to re- 
ceive ,in the name of the state, donations and bequests which 
may be made or given for the equipment and maintenance of 
such school. 

Sec. 5. The sum of twenty thousand dollars is hereby 
appropriated for the establishment of said school and for the 



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purpose of purchasing real estate, tools, machinery, animals 
and equipment, and fOr the erection and repair of buildings 
for such school, and for its complete equipment. 

Sec. 6. The sum of ten thousand dollars is hereby ap- 
propriated annually by the state for the maintenance of the 
school so established. 

Sec. 7. The auditor of accounts is hereby directed to 
draw a:n order in favor of the governor for such amounts and 
at such times as- the board of trustees may request, not exceed- 
ing the amount of said several appropriations. 

Sec. 8. If, on or before the first day of September, 1914, 
the governor and said educational commission have not acted 
in accordance with the respective authorizations conferred biy 
the provisions of this act, or any of them, this act shall in all 
respects be null and void from and after said last named date. 

Sec. 9. Any town in the counties of Addison or Rutland 
is hereby authorized to appropriate such sum in aid of such 
agricultural school, if located in the county in which such town 
is situated, as the legal voters at a meeting duly warned and 
held for that purpose may vote; and the action of any town in 
either o[ said counties, taken previous to the passage of this 
act, in appropriating money for any agricultural school in the 
county wherein such town is located, is hereby declared legal 
and validi 

Sec. 10. This act shall take effect from its passage. 
Approved February 15, 1913. 



NO 68. 

APPROPRIATION FOR STATE SCHOOL OF AGRICUL- 
TURE AT RANDOLPH CENTER. 

Section 1. Appropriation, $5,000 for special purposes. 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE MONEY FOR THE STATE 
SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE. 

It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of 
Vermont. 

Section 1. The sum of five thousand dollars is hereby 



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appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the trustees 
of the state school of agriculture for the estabhshment of a 
water system, the purchase of stock, tools, machinery and school 
equipment and the construction of needed farm buildings at 
sa!id school. 

Sec. 2. The auditor of accounts is hereby directed to 
draw orders, upon the requisition of said trustees, for such sums, 
not exceeding five thousand dollars in the whole, as may be 
necessar}^ to carry out the purposes of this act. 

Sec. 3. This act shall take effect from its passage. 

Approved December 10, 1912. 



NO. 69. 



APPROPRIATION FOR DORMITORY AT RANDOLPH 

CENTER. 

Section 1. Appropriation, $25,000. 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE MONEY FOR THE STATE 
SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE. 

It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of 
Vermont : 

'i Section 1. The trustees of the state school of agricul- 
ture are hereby authorized in their discretion to" construct a nd 
equip a dormitory for said school, at an expense not to exceed 
the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, and, in their discre- 
tion, may expend such part of said sum for other purposes con- 
nected with said school as they may deem best. 

Sec. 2. The auditor of accounts is hereby directed to 
draw., his orders upon the requisition of said trustees for such 
sums, not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars in the whole, 
as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this act. 

Sec. 3. This act shall take effect from its passage. 

Approved January 28, 1913 



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NO. 70. 

CREATION OF THE VERMONT STATE TEACHERS 
RETIREMENT FUND. 



Section 
Section 
Section 
Section 


1. 

2. 
3. 
4. 


Section 
Section 


5. 
6. 


Section 
Section 


7. 
8. 


Section 
Section 


9. 

10. 



Section 1 1 



Composition of fund. 
Management and control. 
Administration and account. 

Appropriation by the state not exceeding ten 
thousand dollars annually. 
State treasurer to act as custodian of funds. 
Retirement fund board to make regulations and 
to report to general assembly. 
Classes of teachers eligible to receive aid. 
Union superintendents and normal school 
teachers included. 

Conditions imposed upon applicants for aid. 
Teachers must retire at 60 years of age in order 
be eligible. 
Conditions and deferment of annuities. 



AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE VERMONT STATE 
TEACHERS' RETIREMENT FUND. 

It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of 
Vermont. : 

Section 1. A permanent fund is hereby established, 
to be known as the Vermont State teachers' Retirement Fund, 
and hereinafter designated as the retirement fund, to be held 
and administered for the benefit of the retired pubilic school 
teach'ers of the state, in accordance with the provisions of this 
act. Said retirement fund shall consist of: 

1. All contributions made by teachers, as hereinafter 
provided. i 

2. All contributions made by The Vermont Teacher 
Retirement Fund Association, hereinafter referred to. 

3. All donations, legacies, gifts and bequests which shall 
be made to such fund, and all moneys which shall be obtained 
from other sources for the increase of said retirement fund. 

4. Appropriations made by the general assembly from 
time to time to carry into effect the purposes of said retirement 
fund, which appropriations when made shall be a'dded thereto 



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and administered in the same manner as other moneys belong- 
ing to said retirement fund. 

5. The income or interest derived from the investment 
of the moneys comprising said retirement fund. 

Sec. 2. Said retirement fund shall be under the manage- 
ment arid control of a board to be known as the Vermont State 
Teachers' Retirement Fund Board, and hereinafter des- 
ignated as the retirement fund board, which shall consist of 
the governor, the superintendent of education, the state treas- 
urer and the president of The Vermont Teachers' Retiremerit 
Fund Association, ex-ofiftcio, and one member of said_ associ- 
ation to be elected by it biennially; the president of said asso- 
ciation and the member to be elected by it, as herein above 
provided, shall hold office as members of said retirement fund 
board, for the term of two years from and after the first day of 
January in the year following their election to said board. 
Said association shall fill vacancies occurring in said board by 
reason of the death, resignation or inability to serve of the 
president of raid association or of the member elected thereto 
by said association as above provided. The members of said 
board shall serve without compensation but shall be entitled 
to their actual expenses necesscirily incurred in the discharge 
of their official duties. 

Sec. 3. Said board is hereby authorized to receive and 
administer, as part of said retirement fund, such moneys as 
may be turned over to it by said association. A separate ac- 
count of such moneys shall be kept, as well as of alt moneys 
contributed by teachers as hereinafter provided.^ Said board 
shall certify to the auditor of accounts, annually in the month 
of November, the total amount of contributions to said fund 
made by said association during the last preceding period of 
twelve months as shown by the books of said board. 

Sec. 4. The auditor of accounts is hereby directed to 
draw an order, annually in the month of November, for such 
sum, not exceeding ten thousand dollars in a'ny orie year, as 
the treasurer of said retirement fund board shall certify to have 
been the sum contributed to said retirement fund during the 
preceding yea'r by said association, as provided in section 3 
of this act. 

Sec. 5. The state treasurer shall be ex-ofiicio treasurer 
of said board and custodian of said retirement fund, and said 
fund shall be invested only in those securities in which the trus- 
tees of a savings bank may invest the moneys deposited therein. 

Sec. 6. The income of said retirement fund shall be dis- 



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"bursed to the beneficiaries thereof hereinafter specified under 
such regulations as shall be prescribed by said board, and 
said board shall niake a detailed biennial report to the general 
assembly of its administration of said fund and the disburse- 
ment of the income thereof. 

Sec. 7. Class 1. A teacher who has taught in the pub- 
lic schools of the state not less than twenty-five years, each 
year of which consisted of not less than twenty-eight weeks, 
■of five days each^ shall, upon retirement from actual service as 
such teacher, be entitled to receive from the income of said re- 
tirement fund, except as hereinafter provided, a life annuity 
-equal to one-half the amount of the average salary -received by 
such teacher during the last five years of said term of service, 
but such sum shall not exceed five hundred dollars. 

Class 2. A teacher who has taught in the public schools 
thirty 3'ears, each year of which shall have been of the length 
specified in the last preceding paragraph, the last twenty years 
of which shall have been spent in teaching in this state, shall 
receive from the income of said retirement fund, except as here- 
inaffter provided, the same annuity as provided for teachers 
in class^l. 

Class 3. A teacher who has taught in the public schools 
of this state, and who, by reason of age or infirmities, has been 
incalpacitated for further service in the public schools, shall 
be entitled to such aid from the income of said retirement 
fund, not exceeding the annuity to which teachers in classes 1 
and 2 are entitled as herein before provided, as shall be de- 
termined by said board. 

Sec. 8. In construing section 7 of this act, principals 
of schools and union superintendents shall be deemed to be 
teachers, and teachers in normal schools shall be deemed to be 
teachers in public schools. 

Sec. 9. To entitle a teacher to the benefits of this act 
he shall present to -said board satisfactory proof : 

1. That he comes within the provisions of section 7 of 
this act with respect to length of service, or age, or infirmi- 
ties, and is therefore entitled to be placed upon the teachers' 
retired list. 

2. Of the largest salary received by him for the school 
work in this state during the period of service by reason of which 
he claims the benefits of said fund. 

3. That he has permanently retired from paid, work in 
.the public schools of this state. 



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4. That he has contributed to said retirement fund a 
sum equal to forty per cent of the annuity to which he claims 
to be entitled. 

Stec. 10. No teacher entitled to the benefits of this act 
on reaching the age of sixty years shall thereafter receive such 
benefits unless he retires from paid work as a teacher on reach- 
irig said age. 

Sec. 11. Prior to the time when the income from said 
retirement fund shall become adequate to pay all annuities 
and benefits as hereinbefore provided, said board is hereby 
authorized to pay annuities and benefits according to a fair 
proportion which shall be determined by the amount of income 
from said retirement fund a},nd by the number of teachers on, 
the retired list. Said board is further authorized, in its dis- 
cretion, to pay full annuities to teachers in class 1 before an- 
nuities are paid to teachers in classes 2 and 3, and to pay full 
annuities to teachers in class 2 before extending the benefits of 
said retirement fund to teachers in class 3. Said board is fur- 
ther authorized, in its discretion, to add the income from 
said retirement fund to the principal thereof, paying no an- 
nuities or benefits until such time as in. the judgment of 
said board said revenue shall be sufficiently large to warrant 
the disbursement thereof in whole or in part under the pro- 
visions of this att. 

Sec. 12. This act shall take effect from its passage. 

Approved January 29, 1913. 



NO. 71. 

TRANSPORTATION OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. 

Section 1. Transportation may be furnished high school 
students by vote of town. 

AN ACT RELATING TO THE TRANSPORTATION OF 
HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS. 

It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of 
Vermont : 

Section 1. A town may, by a m.ajority vote of the vot- 
ers present and voting a.t town meeting, authorize its school 
directors to pay a reasonable sum for the transportation of high. 



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school pupils, and said payments are not to be considered in 
the distribution of funds as provided by section 1014 of the 
Public Statutes. 

Approved December 17, 1912. 



NO. 72. 

DEBATES FOR ADVANCED INSTRUCTION, 1911 nnd 1912 

Section 1. Appropriation, $59,982.51 in rebates for advanc- 
ed instruction for the years 1911 and 1912. 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE PAYMENT OF RE- 
BATES FOR ADVANCED INSTRUCTION. 

It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of 
'Vermont : 

Section 1. The state treasurer shall on or before the 
•first da'y'^of January, 1913, pay to the several towns which have 
paid tuition for higher instruction, according to the provisions 
o( chapter, 47 of the Public Statutes and amendments thereto, 
-sums as follows: 

ADDISON COUNTY. 

Goshen $ 160.00 

Granville. 48.00 

Leicester 72.00 

Salisbury , 176 . 00 

Starksboro 113.25 

BENNINGTON COUNTY. 

Arlington 127.25 

Dorset 188.00 

Pownal : 672 . 00 

N. Pownal, I. D 134.00 

Readsboro 100. 17 

Sandgate 36.00 

Shaftsbury 1,200.00 

Stamford 228.00 

CALEDONIA COUNTY. 

Barnet 272.50 

Burke 138.83 

■Groton. . .-. 50.00 

Hard wick 655 . 17 



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Kirby 52 . 00 

Lyndon 675 . 33 

Lyndon L D 572.00 

Lyndonville L D 900 . 00 

Newark 50.67 

Hyegate . 667 . 33 

St. Johnsbury 4,606.47 

Sheffield 296 . 00 

Stannard 32 . 00 

Sutton. 180.25 

Walden 186. 17 

Waterford 304. 00 

Wheelock 81 .33 

CHITTENDEN COUNTY. 

Bolton 148 . 00 

Colchester . 141.00 

Essex 80.00 

Milton 49.50 

Milton I. D 36.00 

S. Burhngton 199.50 

Underbill 182 . 33 

Westford 216.00 

ESSEX COUNTY. 

Bloomfield 186 . 67 

Canaan 168.00 

Concord 168.00 

Guildhall : 190.67 

Lemington 275. 00 

Lunenburg 140 . 00 

Victory 22 . 76 

FRANKLIN COUNTY. 

Berkshire 293.79 

Enosburg 168.00 

Fairfield 997 . 37 

Fletcher 566.08 

Georgia 150.00 

Montgomery 361 . 00 

Sheldon 107 . 33 

St. Albans Town 120.00 

Swanton : 37 . 33 

GRAND ISLE COUNTY. 

Alburg 20.00 

Grand Isle 72 . 00 

Isle La Motte 42 .00 

I^orth Hero 48 . 00 



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South Hero 44 . 00 

LAMOILLE COUNTY. 

Belvidere 87.67 

Cambridge 778. 75 

Eden 338.33 

Elmore 384 . 53 

Waterville 153 . 00 

Wolcott 278 . 83 

ORANGE COUNTY. 

Braintree 556 . 00 

Brookfield 527 . 86 

Corinth 394. 89 

Corinth L D .' . . . 24.00 

Fairlee : . . . 236.32 

Orange 270 . 78 

Randolph 893 . 12 

Strafford 362 . 79 

Thetford 448.00 

Topsham 200.00 

Tunbridge 217.42 

Vershire 113.50 

Washington 283 . 00 

W. Fairlee 233.50 

Williamstown 460 . 00 

ORLEANS COUNTY. 

Albany 656.83 

Barton ". .- 539 . 00 

Brownington . : 167.17 

Charleston 280.68 

Craftsbury 548 . 20 

Derby 2,179.49 

Glover 258 . 00 

Greensboro ' 574 . 16 

Holland 222 . 66 

Irasburg 426 . 63 

Jay .- 233.75 

Lowell 154.17 

Morgan 231.33 

Newport , 127.33 

NewportCenter 56 . 86 

Troy 409 . 33 

N. Troy, LD 9.33 

Westfield 189.08 

Westmore 16 . 00 

RUTLAND COUNTY. 

Benson ' 24.00 



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Brandon 168 . 00 . 

Castleton 498 . 00 

Chittenden 40 . 00 

Fair Haven 506 . 37 

Hubbard ton 24 . 00 

Ira 12.00 

Middletown Springs 188 . 00 

Mt. Holly 72 . 00 

Pawlet 699 . 75 

Pittsfield 154 . 67 

Poultney 3 . 493 . 54 

Proctor 66.00 

Rutra}iid Town 720 . 00 

Sherburne 78 . 00 

Shrewsbury 224 . 67 

Tinmouth 96 . 00 

Wallingford 68 . 00 

Wells 80. 00 

WASHINGTON COUNTY. 

Barre Town 3,336.98 

Berlin 638 . 33 

Cabot 714.67 

Calafis 491.56 

E. Montpelier 171.56 

Marshfield 598 . 67 

Middlesex 204.86 

Northfield 872 . 00 

Plainfield 52 . 00 

Roxbury 76 . 00 

Waitsfield 109.33 

Warren 716.64 

Woodbury 247 . 00 

Worcester 138.67 

WINDHAM COUNTY. 

Athens 5 . 33 

Brattleboro 997 . 47 

Brookline 200 . 00 

Dover 384. 68 

Dummerston 120 . 67 

Grafton 200.00 

Guilford 24.00 

Halifax 277.33 

Jamaica 208.00 

Londonderry 72 . 00 

Marlboro 66 . 00 

Newfane 236.00 



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Putney 215.50 

Townshend 638.00 

Vernon 99.4^ 

Wardsboro 144.00 

Westminster 749. 79- 

Whitihgham 534. 83 

Windham 88.00 

WINDSOR COUNTY. 

Andover lU.OO 

Barnard 601 . 83 

Bethel : 903.45 

Bridgewater 268 . 00 

Cavendi'sh '• • • 282.49 

Hartland 622 . 25 

Norwich 1 ,263 . 83 

Plymouth 48.00 

Pomfret 134.50 

Reading 200.66 

Rochester 167 . 67 

Roya,lton 187 . 33 

Sharon 459.49 

Weathe;rsfield 486.00 

Weston 310.00 

W. Windsor , 370. 17 

Total $59,982.51 

such sums being due the respective towns or districts for ad- 
vanced instruction for the school years ending June 30, 1911 and 
June 30, 1912, according to the provisions of chapter 47 of the 
Public Statutes. 

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. 

Approved February 21, 1913. 



NO. 73. 



APPEAL TO STATE BOARD FROM COURSES FUR- 
NISHED IN ACADEMIES. 

Section 1. Students residing in towns in which academies 

are located, but no high school, may appeal to 

the board of education for instruction elsewhere. 
Board's decision is final. 



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AN ACT TO REPEAL SECTION 6 OF NO. 68 OF THE 
ACTS OF 1910, RELATING TO EXAMINATION OF 
PUPILS FOR ADVANCED INSTRUCTION: 

It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of 
Vermont : 

Section 1. Section 6 of No. 68 of the acts of 1910 is 
hereby amended by adding thereto: 

But any such applicant, who is dissatisfied with the kind 
of instruction provided in such academy, or who cannot ob- 
tain the kind or course of instruction he desires, may appeal 
to the board of education, whose decision shall be final in regard 
to the institution he may attend. 

Approved February 19, 1913. 



NO. 74. 

STATE AID FOR COURSES IN AGRICULTURE, DOMES- 
TIC SCIENCE AND MANUAL TRAINING IN HIGH 

SCHOOLS. 

Section 1. Appropriation, $2C0 for course in agriculture,, 
or in domestic science, or in manual training 
maintained in a high school, provided specialists 
are employed. 

Section 2. Joint committee of a union may employ a special 
instructor in agriculture, domestic science, man- 
ual training, singing, or drawing. 

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE TEACHING OF AGRI- 
CULTURE, THE MANUAL ARTS AND DOMESTIC 
ECONOMY IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 

// is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of 
Vermont: 

Section 1. Section 1 of No. 40 of the acts of 1908 is here- 
by amended so as to read as follows : 

Section 1. A town maintaining a high school of the 
first class may provide for and maintain courses or depart- 
ments in manual training, domestic economy or agriculture, 
with special instructors therefor, and if such courses or depart- 



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ments have been submitted to and approved by the state board 
of education, and if, for instruction in any of these courses or 
departments in a school year, not less than six hundred dollars 
has been paid in salaries, the chairman of the school board of 
such town shall make a sta tement, under oath, of the amount 
paid in salaries in such town, and the auditor of accounts, on 
certificate of the state board of education, shall draw.^n order 
for two hundred dollars for each course or department so main 
tained. The approval by the state board of education 
of such course or department shall stand until withdrawn by 
notice in writing to the chairman of such town school board. 

Sec. 2. Section 2 of No. 40 of the acts of 19Q8 is hereby 
amended so as to read as follows : 

Sec. 2. The schoool boards in the various towns in a 
supervision union may unite and employ special instructors 
in manual training, domestic science, agriculture, singing or 
drawing, and, if a salary of not less than six hundred dollars is 
paid an instructor in any of these subjects during a school year, 
the chairman of the joint commictee of such union shall make a 
statement under oath, of the amount of salary paid for such 
instruction, and the auditor of accounts, on certificate of the 
state board of education, shall draw an order for two hundred 
dollars in favor of such chairman, to be apportioned among the 
towns comprising such union, according to the amounts of 
their respective grand lists. 

Sec. 3. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this;, 
act are hereby repealed. 

Sec. 4. This act shall take effect July 1, 1913. 
Approved January 28, 1913. 



NO. 75. 
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE. 



Section 
Section 

Section 



Compulsory school age from 8 to 16 years of age. 
Parents or guardians required to furnish age certi- 
ficates. 

Parent or guardian required to send a child over 16 
years of age to school regularly if the child becomes 
enrolled. 



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/Section 4. Teacher to notify the truant officer of a child's 
absence unless the teacher is satisfied that the 
child is sick. 

Section 5. Truant officer to nocify in writing, a person who 
neglects to send child to school and to prosecute per- 
son for failure to act on notice 

Section 6. Truant officer to notify, in writing, a truant child 
to attend school regularly. 

Section 7. Truant officer empowered to call health officer or 
competent physician; expense of examination 
paid frcm school fund. 

Section 8. Habitual truant defined. Superintendent to give 
permits for absence for not more than ten days. 
9. Payment of truant officer from school funds. 

10. Restriction on employment of children. 

11. Superintendent ortruanL officer may call on em- 
ployer of a child for age certificate; superintendent 
to investigate concerning eployment of children. 

Section 12. No child under 14 allowed to work under certain 
conditions. 

13. Corporal punishment permissible. 

14. Sufficiency of complaint. 



Section 
Section 
Section 



Section. 
Section 



JVN ACT TO AMEND CERTAIN SECTIONS OF THE 
PUBLIC STATUTES. RELATING TO SCHOOL ATTEND- 
ANCE. 

It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of 
Vermont : 

Section 1. Section 1029 of the Public Statutes, as amend- 
ed by section 2 of No. 69 of the acts of 1910, is hereby amended 
so as to read as follows: 

Sec. 1029. A person having the control of a child between 
the ages of eight and sixteen years shall, unless such child is 
mentally or physically unable to so attend, or has already 
acquired the branches required to be taught in the elementary 
-schools, or is otherwise being furnished with the same educa- 
tion, or is legally excused from attending school, cause such 
child to attend a public school continuously at least one hun- 
dred fifty days, not including holidays and other days allowed 
teachers by law, and, if the school in which such child is a pupil 
is held for more than one hundred fifty days, shall cause such 
child to continue in school unless excused in writing by the 
town or union superintendent. 



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Sec. 2. Section 4 of No. 69 of the acts of 1910, is hereby- 
amended so as to read as follows : 

Sec. 4. A person having control of a child and claiming 
exemption from the laws requiring school attendance on ac- 
count of age of such schild, asking admission of such child to a 
public schoo', or seeking an employment certificate for such 
child, shall, when required by the town or union superintendent,. 
or by an employer, furnish evidence of the age of such child. 

Sec. 3. Section 1030 of the Public Statutes, as amended 
by section 1 of No. 43 of the acts of 1908, is hereby amended 
so as to read as follows: 

Sec. 1030. If a person having the control of a child over 
sixteen years of age allows such child to be enrolled as a pupil in. 
a public school, or in a school in which his tuition is paid at the 
public expense, he shall cause such child to attend such school 
regularly during the term for which he is enrolled, unless he is 
mentally or physically unable co continue or is excused in^ 
writing by the town or union superintendent. 

Sec. 4. Section 1032 of the Public Statutes is hereby 
amended so as to read as follows: 

Sec. 1032. In case a child be.tween the ages of eight and 
sixteen years, who is not excused or exempted by law from at- 
tending 'school, fails to enter such school at the beginning, 
thereof, or, being enrolled, fails to attend the same, or in case a 
child seven years of age or over sixteen years of age becomes 
enrolled in a public school and fails to attend, the teacher 
shall forthwith notify the truant officer, unless said teacher is 
satisfied that such child is absent on account of sickness. 

Sec. 5. Section 1033 of the Public Statutes, as amended 
by section 2 of No. 43 of the acts of 1908, is hereby amended so 
as to read as follows: 

Sec. 1033. Said truant officer shall, upon such notice,, 
forthwith inquire jnto the ca!use of such child's non-attendance;; 
and, if he finds that such child is required by law to attend 
school, he shall, in writing, notify the person having control of 
such child that such child is a truant and also notify such per- 
son to cause such child to attend school regularly thereafter. 
Upon such notice of the truant officer, if the person having con- 
trol of such child fails, without legal excuse, to cause such child 
to attend school regularly thereafter, said truant officer shall 
forthwith enter a complaint to the town grand juror of the town 
in which said person resides, or to the state's attorney of the 
county, who shall prosecute said person, and said person shall 
be fined as provided in section 1043 of the Public Statutes.. 



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Sec. 6. A truant officer may stop a child between the- 
ages of eight and sixteen years, or a child seven years or over 
sixteen years of age who has become enrolled in a school, where— 
ever found during school hours, and take him to the school' 
which he should attend and notify him, in writing, to attend 
regularly thereafter; and said truant officer may at any time- 
notify a child, in writing, who is not legally excused or exempt 
from attending, that he must attend school regularly thereafter. 
A child subject to the provisions of this act who fai!s to comply 
with the written notice given him by a truant officer in accord- 
ance with this section shall be deemed a truant: and, on com- 
plaint of said truant officer, the town grand juror of the town of 
which such child is a resident, or the state's attorney of the 
county, shall prosecute said child. Upon conviction as a tru- 
ant such child may be sentenced to the Vermont industrial 
school for a period of not less than thirty weeks. 

Sec. 7. Section 1037 of the Public Statutes, as amended^ 
by section 3 of No. 43 of the acts of 1908, is hereby amended so ' 
as to read as follows: 

Sec. 1037. If a person having control of a child repre- 
sents to the truant officer that such child is mentally or physi- 
cally unable to attend school and the truant officer believes or 
has reason to believe that such statement is false, he may re-- 
quest the health officer of the town or a competent physician 
to examine such child and report the facts to such officer, arid 
the expense of such examination shall be paid from the school 
funds of the town. 

Sec. 8. Section 4 of No. 43 of the acts of 1908, is hereby 
amended so as to read as follows : 

Sec. 4. Unless physically or mentally unable to attencj 
or having completed the course of study prepared for elemen- 
tary schools or excuesd in writing by the town or union super7- 
intendent, a child between the ages of eight and sixteen years, 
and a child of seven years or over sixteen years of age who has ■ 
become enrolled in a public or private school, whose sbsence 
from school aggregates ten half school days during ten consecu- 
tive weeks of school, may be adjudged an habitual truant. A 
written excuse granted a child by the town or union superin- 
tendent shall not be for more than ten consecutive school days 
and only for emergencies or for absence from town. 

Sec. 9. Section 1039 of. the Public Statutes is hereby 
amended so as to read as follows : 

Sec. 1039. A person acting as truant officer shall be re- 
imbursed for all expense incurred in the performance of his- 
duties and shall receive two dollars per day for time actually- 



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■spent unless otherwise provided, the same to be paid by or- 
ders drawn by the school board. 

Sec. 10. Section 1044 of the Public Statutes, as amended 
by section 5 of No. 69 of the acts of 1910, is hereby amended so 
as to read as follows: 

Sec. 1044. A child under sixteen years of age, who has 
not completed the course of study prepared for the elementary 
schools by the superintendent of education, shall not be em- 
ployed in work connected with railroading, mining, manu- 
facturing or quarrying, or be employed in a hotel or bowling 
alley, or in delivering messages, except during vacation and 
before and after school. No child shall be employed in any 
•of the occupations or industries herein enumerated unless such 
child deposits with his employer a certificate from the town or 
union superintendent to che effect that he is eligible to employ- 
ment in accordance with the provisions of this chapter; and no 
child under sixteen years of age shall be employed for more than 
nine hours each day, or more than fifty hours in a^ny one week, 
or earlier than seven o'clock in the morning, or after eight o'clock 
at night in any of the occupations or industries herein enumer- 
>ated. In'^case such child has been in attenda.nce upon a private 
or parochial school, said superintendent may examine such child 
for the purpose of determining Uis eligibility to employment 
in accordance with this section. 

Sec. 11. Section 1045 of the PubHc Statutes, as amend- 
ed by section 6 of No. 69 of the acts of 1910, is hereby amended 
rso as to read as follows : 

Sec. 1045. The town or union' superintendent or truant 
• ofiicer nlay inquire of the owner or superintendent of a mill, 
factory, quarry, workshop, hotel, bowling alley, or railroad 
office, shop or yards, as to the employment of children therein, 
may call for the production of certificates deposited with such 
owner or superintendent, and satisfy himself that the require- 
ments of law have been complied with. Said superintendent 
shall at least three times, during any school year, inquire and 
investigate concerning the employment of children in any of 
■ che occupations enumerated in this act and shall require the 
provisions of the law to be carried into effect. 

Sec. 12. Section 1046 of the Public Statutes, as amended 
by Section 1 of No. 70 of the acts of 1910, is hereby amended 
•so as to read as follows: 

Sec. 1046. No child under fourteen years of age shall be 
•employed, permitted or suffered, to work for or in or about or 



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in conneccion with any mill, factory, quarry or workshop,, 
wherein are employed more than ten persons. 

r* Sec. 13. A town or union superintendent or a school di- 
rector, on request of and in the presence of the teacher of a 
school, or said teacher or principal of such school may resort 
to any reasonable form of punishment, including corporal pun- 
ishment, and to any reasonable degree, for the purpose of se- 
curing obedience on the part of or for the correction of a child, 
and for the purpose of securing or maintaining order in and con- 
trol of the school. 

Sec. 14. Section 1050 of the PubHc Statutes, is hereby 
amended so as to read as follows : 

Sec. 1050. A complaint for a violation of the third pre- 
ceding section shall be sufifiicient if it states that the person hav- 
ing a child under his control has allowed said child to be em- 
ployed contrary to law. 

Sec. 15. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this, 
act are hereby repealed. 

Sec. 16. This act shall take efTect frcm its passage. 

Approved February 18, 1913. 



NO. 76. 

CONSOLIDATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF STATE: 
SCHOOL FUNDS. 



Section 1 



Section 
Section 
Section 


2 
3 
4 


Section 


5 


Section 
Section 


6 

7, 



Definitions,-"legal school," "rural school," "per- 
cent expended," "current expenses." 
Consolidation of funds. 
Manner of distribution and conditions. 
Appropriation, $50,000 in lieu of previous ap- 
propriation for transportation and advanced in- 
struction. 

Superintendent to furnish auditor statement of 
apportionment. 

Incorporated district considered a town. 
Provision for schools in unorganized towns and 
gores. 



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Section 8. Rebate for advanced instruction, 1911, not to 
be deducted from current expenses in 1913. 

'Section 9. Rcpealments. 

'Section 10. Apportionment of state tax; same to be paid 
into state treasury on or before Oct. 10. , 

AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE THE VARIOUS SCHOOL 
FUNDS AND APPROPRIATIONS AND TO PROVIDE 
A MORE EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION OF THE SAME. 

It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of 
Vermont : 

Section 1. The term "legal school" shall apply to any 
public school maintciined at least one hundred fifty days, in- 
cluding holidays and others allowed by law, during any school 
year, unless it has been impracticable to maintain the same such 
number of days on account of the closing of said school by the 
local health ofhcer because of an epidemic, and in which the 
average attendance during sessions thereof was not less than 
six, and yhich was taught by a duly qualified and legally cer- 
tificated teacher, and the register of which was kept and re- 
turned according to law. 

The term "rural school'' shall apply, in the distribution 
of school funds, to any school in a separate building and which 
furnishes instruction in no less than six of the nine years of the 
■course prescribed for elementary schools, or to any school of 
a system of not more than three schools which together provide 
instruction covering the nine years of such prescribed course. 

The per cent of grand list ex pended by a town for the main- 
tenance of schools during any school year shall be determined 
by subtracting from the current expenses of that year all school 
moneys received, except such as were received from taxes on 
the grand list of the. town for that year and from the surplus 
from a previous year, and by dividing the difference so obtained 
by the grand list of the town for the year in which the tax is 
raised. The words "current expenses" as used in this act shall 
include all moneys expended for school purposes, except for the 
construction of new buildings; and the words "per cent" as 
used in this act shall mean the per cent as determined by this 
section. 

Sec 2. A consolidation of the receipts from the eight per 
cent state tax, of the revenue from the interest on the permanent 
school fund, and of fifty thousand dollars hereby appropr- 
ated annua:lly, is formed for apportionment and distribution 



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among the various towns, unorganized towns and gores, for the 
encouragement of pubHc education. 

Sec. 3. The consoHdation formed under the preceding 
section shall be apportioned as follows: 

a. A town expending fifty per cent and more of its grand 
list for current expenses in the ma^intenance of public schools 
shall receive, from the foregoing consolidation of school funds, 
forty per cent of its excess above fifty per cent of its grand list 
so expended; a town expending sixty per cent and more of its 
grand list for current .expenses in the maintenance of public 
schools shall receive, from the foregoing consolidation, twenty 
per cent of its excess above sixty per cent of its grand list so 
expended and in addition to the forty per cent of excess herein 
provided; and a town expending seventy per cent or more of 
its grand list for current expenses in the maintenance of schools 
shall receive, from the foregoing consolidation, ten per cent of 
its excess above seventy per cent of its grand list so expended 
and in addition to the forty per cent and the twenty per cent 
of excess herein provided. 

b. A town expending fifty per cent or more of its grand 
list for current expenses in the maintenance of schools shall 
receive, from the foregoing consolidation, twenty-five per cent 
of the amount paid in any school year in tuition for advanced 
instruction, not exceeding thirty dollars per student per year, 
as provided under chapter 47 of the Public Statutes; and a 
town expending seventy per cent or more of its grand list for 
such current expenses shall receive, from the foregoing consoli- 
dation and in lieu of the twenty-five per cent herein provided, 
fifty per cent of the amount expended for advanced instruction, 
not exceeding thirty dollars per pupil per school year, provided 
that neither the average wage of the teachers in its elementary 
schools exceeded eleven dollars per week nor the average num- 
ber of weeks of its elementary schools exceeded thirty-six for 
the school year. 

C. A town expending fifty per cent or more of its grand 
list for current expenses in the maintenance of schools shall re- 
ceive, from the foregoing consolidation, twenty-five per cent of 
the amount expended for transportation and board of pupils, 
as provided under chapter 46 of the Public Statutes; and a town 
expending seventy per cent or more of its grand list 
for such current expenses shall receive, from the foregoing 
consDlidation and in lieu of the twenty-five per cent herein pro- 
vided, fifty per cent of the amount expended for transporta- 
tion and board of pupils, provided that neither the average 
wage of the teacher in its elementary schools exceeded eleven 



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dollars per week nor the average number of weeks of its ele- 
mentary schools exceeded thirty-six for the school year. 

d. A town shall receive, from the foregoing consolidation^ 
one dollar for each week a graduate of a normal school, or of a. 
teacher training course, or of a recognized kindergarten train- 
ing school, is employed as a teacher in a rural school, provided 
said graduate is legally quahfied and certificated and has re- 
ceived not less than seven dollars, net, not including board,, 
for services as a beginner in teaching, and not less than eight 
dollars per week net if said graduate has taught in rural schools 
not less than thirty weeks since graduation. 

e. The remainder of the foregoing consohdation shall be 
divided among the various towns, unorganized towns and gores, 
according to the number of legal schools maintained in each^ 
but provided as follows: 

First. A town in which a rural school has been discon- 
tinued by the school board at the beginning of or during a school 
year shall be entitled to and receive from such remainder of the- 
consolidation an amount equal to that which the town would 
have received if the school had been maintained as a legal school 
and with an average of ten or more for one hundred fifty days- 
including holidays and others allowed by law; for the second 
year of discontinuance of such school the town shall receive only 
one-half as much as for the first year of discontinuance, and for 
the third year of discontinuance only one-half as much as for 
the second year of discontinuance. 

Second. A town expending less than forty per cent of 
its grand list for current school expenses as determined by sec- 
tion 1 of this act shall forfeit such portion of the town's share 
of such remainder of the consohdation as the difference is be- 
tween the amount so expended for current expenses and forty 
per cent of the town's grand hst, and such sums so forfeited shall 
be credited by the state treasurer to the permanent school fund 
of the state. 

Thitd. A school board of a town shall, under oath, fur- 
nish to the town clerk, on or before the third day of July annu- 
ally, and on a blank furnished said board by the superintendent 
of education, an itemized statement of the actual cash expendi- 
tures for the maintenance of public schools for the school year 
ending June thirtieth next previous — the amount of current ex- 
penses; the per cent of the grand list expended for the mainte- 
nance of schools in addition to all other school moneys; the 
amount of tuition paid for advanced instruction; the amount 
paid for transportation and board; and the number of legal 



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■schools maintained during the school year; and the town clerk 
-shall, on or before the tenth day of July annually, furnish and 
•certify to the superintendent of education, on a blank furnished 
him by said superintendent all of the foregoing items, per cent 
•expended, amounts paid, and number of legal schools and such 
other data as said superintendent may require; and no town 
shall be entitled to or receive any of the appropriation made 
under the preceding section which has not complied with the 
provisions of this section. 

Sec. 4. Fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated 
annually from the state treasury for the purpose of creating the 
•consolidation hereinbefore provided and of carrying ouc the 
purposes of this act. 

Sec. 5. On or before the first day of September annually, 
■the superintendent of education shall furnish the auditor of ac- 
counts a certified statement of the various amounts to which 
each town is entitled under this act and said auditor, after ex- 
amination of such statement, shall draw an order for the amounts 
due each town, and said treasurer shall forthwith pay to the 
treasurer of each such town the several amounts respectively 
-due such town in accordance with this act, and the treasurer 
•of such town shall credit to the school funds of his town all 
moneys so received. 

Sec. 6. For the purposes of this act, a city or an incorpor- 
ated school district shall be considered a town and the town 
clerk of the town in which an incorporated school district ex- 
ists shall furnish all data and certify to all items for such in- 
•corporated district in the same manner as for the town school 
district, and a city clerk shall furnish and certify in the same 
:manner for a city. 

Sec. 7. A school district in an unorganized town or gore 
shall be encitled to share, according to the number of schools 
it has maintained, in the remainder of the consolidations which 
:is apportioned and distributed to towns according to number 
■of legal schools maintained. 

Sec. 8. In determining the per cent expended by a town 
for the maintenance of public schools during the school year 
■ending June 30, 1913, the amount paid such town by the state 
in rebate for advanced instruction for the school year ending 
June 30, 1911, shall not be deducted from the current expenses. 

Sec. 9. Section 1014 of the Public Statutes and section 
1023 of the Public Statutes, as amended by section 4 of No. 68 
•of the acts of 1910, and section 1095 of the Public Statutes, as 



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amended by section 1 of No. 47 of the acts of 1908, and all acts; 
or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. 

Section 10. Section 1092 of the Public Statutes is here- 
by amended so as to read as follows : 

Sec. 1092. The state treasurer shall apportion such tax 
to the several towns, unorganized towns and gores, according^, 
to their respective grand lists as shown by the list prepared, 
annually by the commissioner of taxes from the abstracts of 
the grand lists of such towns, unorganized towns and gores^. 
which are required to be returned to his office, and shall annually,, 
on or before the last day of December, make out and transmit 
to each town treasurer, and to the collector of taxes for unor- 
ganized towns and gores, a notice of the amount so apportioned 
and that the same must be paid into the state treasury on or 
before the tenth day of October following, and also issue and 
transmit at the same time, to said collector, a warrant for the 
collection of such tax. 

Approved February 22, 1913.. 



NO. 77. 

APPARATUS FOR INSTRUCTION CONCERNING THE 
RESOURCES OF VERMONT. 

Section 1. Appropriation, $1500 for lanterns and slides for 

use by union superintendents. 
Section 2. Custody of lanterns and slides. 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE APPARATUS FOR INSTRUCT ION 
CONCERNING THE RESOURCES OF VERMONT. 

It is Jiereb2; enacted by the General Assembly of the State of 
Vermont : 

Section 1. The sum of fifteen hundred dollars is hereby ap- 
propriated for the purchase of lanterns and slides to be used by 
union superintendents for the purpose of giving instruction 
concerning the various resources, manufactures, industries, 
physical features, agriculture and home life of Vermont and the 
world, such lanterns and slides to be selected and purchased 
by a committee of three elected at the annual conference of 
union superintendents, and the auditor of accounts shall draw 
an order in payment for such lanterns and slides upon the p re- 



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sentation of an account thereof approved by the superinten-- 
dent of education. 

Sec. 2. Such lanterns and slides shall be kept in the 
state house when not in use, shall be in charge of the superin- 
tendent of education, and may be loaned by said supertendents - 
to union superintendents who shall receipt therefor. Expenses in- 
curred in obtaining and operating a lantern and slides shall be 
paid by the town in which such lanterns and slides are used, 
and such expense shall be charged to the school account. 
Damage or loss incurred during the time such lanterns and 
slide are in a town shall be paid by the town on presentation 
by the superintendent of education of a statement of such 
loss or damage. Moneys received from loss or damage shall be 
expended by the superintendent of education in repairin g the 
apparatus and in purchasing new equipment. 

Sec. 3. This act shall take effect from its passage. 

Approved February 22, 1913. 



NO. 78. 

LEGALIZING SCHOOL MEETINGS OF INCORPOR- 
ATED DISTRICTS. 

Section 1. School meetings called by clerks of incorporated 
school districts legalized. 

AN ACT TO LEGALIZE SCHOOL MEETINGS OF AN 
INCORPORATED SCHOOL DISTRICT, CALLED^AS 
PROVIDED IN SECTION 1134 OF THE PUBLIC STA- 
TUTES. 

It is hereby enacted hy the General Assembly of the State of 
Vermont : 

Section 1. All school meetings of an incorporated school 
district heretofore called by its clerk as provided by section 1 134- 
of the Public Statutes, are hereby declared to have been legal-- 
ly called. 

Approved December 4, 1912. 



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NO. 79. 

APPLICATION OF GENERAL LAWS TO INCORPORATED 

DISTRICTS. 

Section 1. Extension of powers of school officials of unor- 
ganized towns and gores to incorporated dis- 
tricts. 

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 1139 OF THE PUBLIC 
STATUTES, RELATING TO INCORPORATED SCHOOL 
DISTRICTS. 

It is hereby enacted' hy the General Assembly of the State of 
Vermont : 

Section 1. Section 1139 of the Public Statutes is hereby 
amended so as to read as follows: 

Sec. 1139. The provisions. of law relating to the admin- 
istration and maintenance of public schools, school meetings 
and voti^ng therein, to raising and expending school moneys, 
to sharing in state aid for public schools, to the election and ap- 
pointment of school officers, to elementary and higher instruc- 
tion, to transportation, board and attendance of pupils, to 
truancy, to the furnishing of text-books and appliances and 
to other matters pertaining to schools in a town, shall, unless 
■otherwise provided, pertain to schools maintained, and all 
matters pertaining thereto, in incorporated school districts 
and the provisions of law relating to the calling of school 
meetings, and to the powers, duties and liabilities of school 
• officers in unorganized towns and gores shall apply to such of- 
ficers in incorporated districts, except that the clerk of such 
■district shall not be considered a town clerk for school pur- 
poses. 

Approved December 4, 1912. 



NO. 80. 

DUTIES OF UNION SUPERINTENDENTS. 

Section 1. Report to be malde on or before June 30. 
"Section 2. Superintendent empowered to dimiss certain 
children from school. 



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Section 3. life certificates. 

Section 4. Auditor empowered to deduct state aid from* 
towns having received excesses. 

Section 5. Superintendent empowered to call a substi- 
tute on appeal. 

Section 6. Salary of superintendent to be raised or lower- 
ed only by majority of joint committee. 

AN ACT TO AMEND CERTAIN SECTIONS OF THE 
PUBLIC STATUTES RELATING TO SCHOOLS, AND 
SCHOOL UNIONS. 

It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of 
Vermont : 

Section 1. A union superintendent shall, annually, on 
or before the thircieth day of June, submit to the board of 
school directors of each town in his union a written report of 
his services to the town, together with information concerning 
the needs and conditions of the schools, and with suggestions 
for their improvement. Such report may be included by said 
board in its annual report to the town. 

Sec. 2. Section 1164 of the Public Statutes, as amended 
by section 2 of No. 59 of the acts of 1910, is hereby amended 
so as to read as follows : • , , 

Sec. 1164. The town superintendent, or the principal 
of a school in an incorporated district not in a supervisory 
union, shall biennially, in the month of September of every 
even year, cause his teachers to test the sight and hearing, 
of every pupil seven years of age and older in such school, 
to keep a record of such tests according to the insturctions 
furnished, to notify in writing the parent or guardian of a pupil 
who is found to have a defect of vision or hearing or a disease- 
of the eyes or ears, with a brief statement of such defect or 
disease and to report the results to said superintendent or 
principal, who, in turn, shall report the results of such test, 
in his town or district to the superintendent of education. 
Said town superintendent or principal shall also cause his teach- 
ers to test the sight and hearing of all children in school, be- 
coming seven years of age, and to test at any time the sight 
and hearing of any pupil apparently defective. The town, 
or union superintendent may, after consulting with the local 
health officer, dismiss from school any pupil whose personal, 
habits, infirmities or influence are such as to make the pre- 
sence of such pupil harmful to the welfare of the school. 

Sec. 3. Section 962 of the Public Statutes, as amended by 



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■section 10 of No. 37 of the acts of 1908, is hereby amended 
•so as to read as follows: 

Sec. 962. A certificate of the first grade shall be issued 
to one who has taught forty weeks, whose examination papers 
■show that the applicant has reached the standard required, 
- and who has given evidence of good moral character and abil- 
ity to govern. Such certificate shall be a license to teach in 
the public schoojs for five years from its date. A person who 
has taught in the public schools of the state or who has served 
^ as union superintendent or who has both so taught and served 
for two hundred weeks, and who has held first grade certi- 
ficates for ten years, may receive, without examination, a 

• certificate from the superintendent of education, which shall 
be a license to teach in the public schools of the state until 

"the same is revoked by said superintendent. 

Sec. 4. If it becomes evident to the auditor of accounts 
that, in the apportionment or distribution of state aid for any 

■school year, a town has received more than such town was 
legally entitled to receive, the amount of such excess shall be 

■deducted from such town's apportionment in the following 
school year and be assigned and credited to the permanent 

-school fund. 

Sec. ^. Section 1008 of the Public Statutes, as amended 
'by section 2 of No. 38 of the acts of 1908, is hereby amended 
to as to read as follows: 

Sec. 1008. On notice of such appeal, the town or union 
superintendent shall appoint a time and place of hearing 

f thereon in the town where such appeal originated. Such ap- 
peal shall be heard by the town or union superintendent, as 

'the case may be, and by two other persons, one of whom shall 
be selected by the appellant and the other by the board of 
school directors; and if either party fails to select a referee, 
said town or union superintendent and the referee selected by 
the other party shall select a second referee, and the question 
shall be decided by the superintendent and the two referees 
so chosen. Said appeal shall be to the union superintendent 
if the appellant resides in a union district, but if not, to the town 
superintendent. The decision shall be rendered in writing 
to the board of school directors, and said board shall act as 
directed therein. Said town or union superintendent may, 

• on permission of said board and at the expense of the town 
interested, request the superintendent of another town or 
union to serve in his stead in a hearing held in accordance 

•with the provisions of this section. 

Sec. 6. If, at any duly called meeting of the joint com- 



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imittee of a union, a minority of said committee is present 
^nd votes to raise or lower the salary of the union superin- 
tendent, such vote shall not become effective until a majority 
of said joint committee has given written approval thereto. 
All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are 
Siereby repealed. 

Sec. 8. This act shall take effect from its passage. 

Approved February 20, 1913. 



NO. 81. 

CREATION OF VERMONT STATE SCHOOL FOR FEE- 
BLE MINDED CHILDREN 



Provisions for same. 

Board of trustees. 

Care and control. 

Meetings of board. 

Payment for expenses of board. 

Organization of board and establishment of school. 

Custody of funds. 

Administration. 

Powers and duties. 

Employment of experts. 

Provision for children of indigent parents. 

Conditions for admission. 

Methods of admission. 

Transfers from Vermont Industrial school. 

Appeal. 

Discharge. 

Appropriations, $25,000. 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE CARE, TRAINING 
AND EDUCATION OF FEEBLE-MINDED CHILDREN. 

It is hereby e^iacted by the General Assembly of the State of 
Vermont : 

Section 1. A state school which shall be called the Ver- 
mont State School for Feeble-minded Children is hereby ere- 



Section 


1. 


Section 


2. 


Section 


3. 


Section 


4. 


Section 


5. 


Section 


6. 


Section 


7. 


Section 


8. 


Section 


9. 


Section 


10. 


Section 


11. 


Section 


12. 


Section 


13. 


Section 


14. 


Section 


15. 


Section 


16. 


Section 


17. 



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ated and established for the care, training and education of 
idiotic and feeble-minded children, otherwise called mentally 
defective children, between five and twenty-one years of age. 
All such children in the Vermont industrial school, who — in 
the judgnent of the selectmen or the board of penal institu- 
tions — are capable of being benefited by the instruction given 
in said school for feeble-minded children, shall be committed 
thereto. 

Sec. 2. A board of trustees of said school is hereby 
created, consisting of the governor ex-officio, and four other 
persons a'ppointed by the governor prior to the first day of 
March, 1913, two to serve until January 1. 1915, and two tO' 
serve until January 1, 1917; and in December biennially 
thereafter, the governor shall appoint tw^o persons as trus- 
tees to serve for the term of four years from and including the- 
first day of January next after their appointment. Said trus- 
tees shall hold office until their successors are appointed and 
qualified. The governor shall be chairman of said board and 
it shall appoint a vice-chairman, secretary and treasurer. - 
The office of secretary and treasurer may be held by the same 
person. ^ 

Sec. 3. Said board shall have the general care, control 
and management of said school and shall faithfully carry out: 
its purposes and objects. One or more of said trustees shall 
visit said school as often as once each month and make report 
of such visit to said board at its next stated meeting there- 
after; and said board shall annually, on or before the first 
day of September, make a detailed report in writing to the gov- 
ernor of the financial and other conditions of said school. A 
fair summary of such report shall be furnished by the secre- 
tary of the board to such daily and weekly newspapers of the 
state as the board shall select, provided said newrpapers will 
publish the same without pay. 

Sec. 4. Said board shall hold at least four stated meetings- 
each year at such time and place as they select. The entire- 
board shall officially visit and inspect said school at least twice 
each year. 

Sec. 5. Said board shall serve without pay but their 
actual necessary expenses when away from home on official. 
business shall be paid by the state. 

Sec. 6. Said board shall, within thirty days after appoint- 
ment, meet and organize. Said board may, subject to the ap- 
proval of the governor, establish such school in connection 
with any other institution; or said board may, subject to the 



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approval of the governor, purchase any property that may 
iseem! by virtue of its loc'ati6n or adaptation, especially suited 
■for the piirposefe of such school. In case of the purchase of 
;ahy ' ■proper'ty as hereinbefore provided for, the deed shall be 
taken in the corporate name of said school. 

Sec. 7. Said board is hereby empowered to receive by ' 
gift, bequest or otherwise, any money or real or personal es- 
tate, made for the use and benefit of said school, and shall in- 
vest moneys so received in safe interest bearing securities and 
in the corporate name of s'a;id school. 

Sec. 8. Said board shall make needful rules and regula- 
tions for the government of said school and its inmates, not 
inconsistent with the purposes and objects of this act, and do 
all necessary acts within its power to provide for the proper 
care, training and education of those committed to said school. 
All expenses incurred and bills contracted by said board in 
establishing said school, purchasing a site, erecting and equip- 
ping buildings, and maintaining and operating said school 
until January 1, 1915, shall be audited by the auditor of 
• accounts, who shall draw his order in payment of the same. 

Sec. 9. Said board shall employ and remove at its plea- 
sure,) teachers, clerks, servants and employees, fix their pay, and, 
with the teachers, prescribe and adopt courses of instruction 
for the inmates of said school, and prescribe and adopt means 
and methods for their discipline and training and see that there 
is no undue force used in requiring and enforcing obedience 
thereto; and said board may cause che inmates of said school 
to perform such amount of manual labor as said trustees deem 
to be conducive to the physical, mental and rrioral improve- 
ment of such inmates, and shall make rules and regulations for 
the performance of such labor. 

Sec. 10. Said board may, in its discretion, employ an 
expert ph\'sician or physicians of repute and professional skill 
and of special fitness in the treatment of such feeble-minded 
persons as rnay be committed to said school, to prescribe for 
and treat them professionally. Said board shall fix the com- 
pensation to be paid such physician and the auditor of accounts 
shall draw his order to pay such bills therefor as said board 
shall present, when certified to by the governor and the chair- 
man and secretary of said board. 

Sec. 11. Any indigent and needy children of this state, 
between five and twenty-one years of age, who may be con- 
sidered proper subjects within the purview of this act and who 
;;have no parents, guardians or other persons able to provide 



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for and educate them, may be received into said school as 
state charges; and all other such children whose parents, guar- 
dians or kinsman are bound by law to care for and educate them 
and are able to pay, may be received into said school, upon 
payment of such sum and upon such terms for their care, 
training, educacion and maintenance as the trustees shalli 
prescribe. 

Sec. 12. The following order shall be observed in the- 
admission of children under the provisions of this act : 

First: Such children as are now supported entirely at 
the expense of the public in the Vermont industrial school. 

Second: Such children as are not so supported, but 
whose parents, guardians or other persons having them in charge- 
are not able in the judgment of said trustees, properly to care 
for, train, educate and maintain them, and who are committed 
by a judge of probate in the manner prescribed in the follow- 
ing section. 

Third: Such children as are mentioned in the first class 
referrecj to in section 11 of this act. 

Fourth: Such children as are mentioned in the sceond 
class referred to in sceond 11 of this act. 

Sec. 13. Application in writing signed by the parent or 
guardian of a child considered a prcper subject to receive the 
benefits of this act or by the selectmen of the town, may be 
made to a judge of probate for the district in which such child, 
resides for an order of commitment to said school, and thereupon' 
such judge shall appoint a day for hearing. If such appli- 
cation is made by the selectmen of a town, ten days notice shall 
be given the parent or guardian or the person having such child 
in charge if there be no parent or guardian living, or if liv- 
ing, his residence or domicile is unknown. At such hearing, 
the certificates of two physicians who are graduates of a legally 
organized and approved medical school, and who have had 
actual practice in medicine for five years in this state, stating 
that such child is a suitable and proper subject for commit- 
ment to said school, shall be filed with said judge. Said judge- 
may hear any other testimony he may deem proper to be sub- 
mitted to him. If said judge, after hearing, is of the opinion 
such child ought to be committed to said school, he shall issue 
an order of commitment directed to said trustees and attach 
to such order a certified copy, under his official seal, of said two 
certificates, and thereupon said trustees, if there be room ins 
said school, shall receive such child therein. 



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Sec. 14. Inmates of the Vermont industrial school who- 
shall be adjudged by the board of penal institutions and saidi 
board of trustees acting jointly, proper subjects to be committed 
to said school shall be therein committed upon the cetificate of 
said two boards in writing, accompanied by the certificate of 
two physicians as provided in the preceding section, and there- 
upon such charges shall be received into said school for the- 
remainder of the term of their commitment to said industrial 
school. 

Sec. 15. An order of committal under this act shall be^ 
subject to appeal in the same manner, by the same persons, and 
to the same extent that decrees of the judge of probate appoint- 
ing guardians over persons alleged to be insane are subject to 
appeal, and no commitment under this act shall bar habesis 
corpus proceedings, but the court upon habeas corpus pro-, 
ceedings may confirm the order of committment whenever 
justice requires. 

Sec. 16. An inmate of said school may be discharged 
therefrom by the act of any three trustees in writing filed with^ 
their secretary or by a superior judge after proper hearing and 
upon an application in writing of any person considered by said 
judge legally interested, whenever a further detention in said 
school is in their judgment, unnecessary. But an inmate so 
discharged, who was at the time of commitment to said school 
under sentence to said industrial school, the period of whose- 
sentence had not then expired, shall be remanded to said in- 
dustrial school and thereafter be subject to the terms of said 
original sentence. 

Sec. 17. A sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dol- 
lars is hereby appropriated to be used and eicpended 
for the purposes named in this act sixteen thousand dollars of 
which may be expended before January 1, 1914, and the bal- 
ance of said twenty-five thousand dollars before January ly. 
1915 ; and the auditor of accounts is hereby authorized to audit, 
bills presented to him, properly stated and itemized, by a ma- 
jority of said board of trustees, certified to by its chairman 
and secretary from time to time, as said bills shall be so present- 
ed, and is directed to draw an order for their payment. 

Approved February 19, 1913. 



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...NO. 82 

APPROPRIATION FOR INSTRUCTION OF DEAF, DUMB 

AND BLIND. 

•Section 1. Appropriation, $30,000. 

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 1168 OF THE PUBLIC 
STATUTES, RELATING TO DEAF, DUMB, BLIND, 
IDIOTIC, FEEBLE-MINDED AND EPILEPTIC 
CHILDREN OF INDIGENT PARENTS. ■ 

// is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of 
V'ermont : 

Section 1. Section 1168 of the Public Statutes is hereby 
-amended so as to read as follows : 

Sec. 1168. A sum not exceeding thirty thousand dollars 
is annually appropriated for the benefit of the deaf, dumb, 
"blind, idiotic, feeble-minded and epileptic children cf indigent 
parents, to be used agreeably to the provisions of this chapter. 

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. 

Approved January 28, 1913. 



NO. 83. 

APPROPRIATIONS FOR UNIVERSIRTY OF VEMONT, 
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE AND NORWICH 
UNIVERSITY. 



"Section 
rSection 

"Section 



1. 

2. 



Section 


4. 


Section 


5. 


Section 


6. 


'Section 


7. 



Appropriation, $13,500 for college of medicine. 
Appropriation, $4,800 for scholarships in State 
Agricultural College. 

Appropriation, $8,000 for state agricultural col- 
lege. 

Designation of time of payment. 
Appropriation, $12,800 for Middlebury College. 
Appointments to scholarships, Norwich University 
Provision in case of vacancy in senatorship. 



Section 


9. 


Section 


10. 


Section 


11. 


Section 


14. 



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Section 8. Appropriation, $5,000 increase for Norwich Uni- 
versity- 
Appropriation, $9,000 for Norwich University. 
Account of expenditures. 
Board of visitors, Norwich University. 
Rights duties and obHgations of the three col- 
legiate institutions to be determined by educa- 
tional commission. 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE. 
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICUL- 
TURAL COLLEGE, AND ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTION 
AND SCHOLARSHIPS IN MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE 
AND TO AMEND SECTIONS 1187 TO 1192, BOTH IN- 
CLUSIVE AND TO REPEAL SECTION 1186 OF THE 
PUBLIC STATUTES RELATING TO SCHOLARSHIPS 
IN NORWICH UNIVERSITY. 

// is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of 
Vermont : 

Section 1. The auditor of accounts shall draw his order 
in favor of the treasurer of the University of Vermont and State 
Agricultural College for thirteen thousand five hundred dol- 
lars annually for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1914 and 1915 
respectively, for the ecxlusive use of the College of Medicine 
connected with said institution, which shall be expended in es- 
tabHshing and maintaining a free medical dispensary, in fur- 
nishing clinical facilities, and for purposes of instruction. 

Sec. 2. The auditor of accounts shall draw his order 
in favor of the treasurer of the University of Vermont and State 
Agricultural College for forty-eight hundred dollars annually 
for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1914 and 1915, respectively 
for the exclusive use of the College of Agriculture connected 
with such institution, which shall be used for the payment of 
tuition charges of sixty students from Vermont in sa,id college 
to the extent of eighty dollars annually; provided, however^ 
that, should the number of properly qualified a:pplicants for 
such scholarships in such college be less from any county thaji 
twice the number of senators from such county, said scholar- 
ships may be given to properly qualified applicants in either 
the academic or engineering departments. Each senator in 
the general assembly shall on or before August 1, 1913 desig- 
nate and appoint two worthy and needy students to said college 
and the scliolarships thus awarded shall be for a period of two 
years. 



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A vacancy in a scholarship shall be filled by the senator 
-who originally made the appointment or by his successor. If 
•a senator fails to appoint to any scholarship before the begin- 
ning of the school year following the expiration of the appoint- 
.ment made by his predecessor, after notice from the registrar 
-of the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College 
•of such expiration arid vacancy, the registrar shall designate and 
-appoint a student to such scholarship. 

Sec. 3. The auditor of accounts shall draw his order in 
.favor of the treasurer of the University of Vermont and State 
-Agricultural College for eight thousand dollars annually for 
the fiscal years ending June 30, 1914 and 1915, 'respectively 
for the exclusive use of the College of Agriculture connected 
^th such institution, which shall be expended solely for work 
:in agricultural extension, including the establishing of exten- 
sion schools, correspondence courses, lecture and reading courses, 
<of demonstration plots, the issuance of educational leaflets 
.and bulletins dealing with agriculture and support of district 
field agents in co-operation with the office of farm manage- 
.ment of the United States department of agriculture, and kin- 
dred enterprises bearing direct relationship to the agricul- 
tural advancement of the state; and such work shall be done, 
whenever practicable, in co-operation with the commissioner 
-of agriculture of this state. 

Sec. 4. One-half of each appropriation made in the three 
preceding sections shall be payable on the first day of July and 
the other half on the first day of January annually beginniug 
with the first day of July, 1913. 

Sec. 5. The auditor of accounts shall draw his order in 
favor of the treasurer of Middlebury College for twelve thou- 
sand eight hundred dollars annually for the fiscal years ending 
June 30, 1914 and 1915, respectively. One-half of such appro- 
priation shall be payable on the first day of July and the other 
half on the first day of January annually beginning with the 
first day of July, 1913. Ten thousand four hundred dollars 
of said appropriation shall be annually expended by such in- 
■stituLion in providing instruction in subjects essential for stu- 
dents preparing to teach in Vermont high schools and academies. 

Two thousand four hundred dollars of^said appropriation 
-shall be a^nnually expended by said institution in paying the 
^tuition to the .amount of eight}^ dollars, of thirty Vermont stu- 
idents selected as follows: 

Each senator in the general assembly shall, on or before 
August t, 1913, designate a worthy and needy student to said 



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college and the scholarships thus awarded shall be for a period 
of two years. A vacancy in a scholarship shall be filled by 
the senator who originally made the appointment or by his 
successor. If a senator fails to appoint to any scholarship be- 
fore the time aforesaid or fails to appoint to fill a vacancy 
within thirty days after notice from the registrar of said col- 
lege that a vacancy exists, the registrar shall designate and ap- 
point a student to such scholarship. 

Sec. 6. Section 1187 of the Public Statutes, as amended 
by section 3 of No. 126 of the acts of 190S, is hereby amended 
so as to read as follows: 

Sec. 1187. Each senator shall annually on or before the 
first day of August select and appoint, a worthy a'nd needy 
candidate for the scholarships hereinafter named. Such can- 
didate shall be a resident of the state and, if such apply, of the 
county for which the senator is serving; provided that men of 
legal age shall not be eligible for such appointment unless, 
they were qualified to vote at a preceding state election. Ap- 
pointment to fill vacant unexpired scholarships shall be made 
in the same manner. 

Sec. 7. Section 1188 of the Public Statutes is hereby 
amended so as to read as follows : 

Sec. 1188. Whenever there is a vacancy in the senator- 
ship for any county, the senator or senators from that county, 
or, in case there is none, the governor may appoint and desig- 
nate persons for scholarships in Norwich University to the same 
number and in the same manner that the incumbent of such 
senatorship might, if there were no vacancy. 

Sec. 8. Section 1189 of the Public Statutes is hereby 
amended so as to read as follows: 

Sec. 1189. The auditor of accounts shaill draw his order 
in favor of sa^id institution for the sum of eleven thousand dol- 
lars; five thousand five hundred dollars thereof shall be payable 
to the treasurer of said institution on the first day of July and 
of January, semi-annually. Such appropriation shall be ex- 
pended in carrying out the provisions of the charter of said in- 
stitution through the payment of salaries of its instructional 
force and suitably providing for addition to and for the main- 
tenartce of laboratories and equipment for its work in engineer- 
ing, in the natural sciences and in physical culture; provided 
that the college shall maintain scholarships of a four years 
term, covering eighty dollars of the yearly tuition of students 
appointed in accordance with the provisions named in the 
preceding sections. 



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Sec. 9. The auditor of accounts shall, in addition to the~ 
appropriation made in the preceding section, draw his order 
iti favor of the treasurer of Norwich University for the sum of 
nine thousand dollars annually for the fiscal years ending June 
30, 1914 and 1915, respectively. One-half of such appropri- 
ation shall be payable on the first day of July and the other half 
on the first day of January annually beginning with the fir,s.t 
day of July, 1913. Such appropriation shall be expended for 
the purposes mentioned in the preceding section. 

Sec. 10. Section 1190 of the Public Statutes is hereby- 
amended so as to reasd a follows: 

Sec. 1190. A record of the receipt and expenditure of 
all moneys paid such institution under this act shall be kept. 
by it in a separate and independent account. 

Sec. 11. vSection 1191 of the Public Statutes is hereby 
amended so as to read as follows: 

Sec. 1191. The governor shall biennially, during the 
session of the general assembly, with the advice and consent of 
the senate appoint three persons, who, with the a^uditor of ac- 
counts and the superintendent of education, shall constitute a_ 
board of visitors to Norwich University, whose term of ofhce shall 
commence on tne first day of December following their appoint- 
ment and' shall continue until their successors aVe appointed 
and qualified. The governor shall fill va'cancies occurring in . 
said board. 

Sec. 12. Section 1192 of the Public Statutes is hereby 
amended so as to read as follows: 

Sec. 1192. Said board shall visit and inspect said insti- 
tution at such times as it sees fit, and shall report the result 
of such inspections, giving in detail the manner of expenditure 
and of accounting for all moneys appropriated by the state for 
such institution, to the governor, who shall transmit the same 
to the state board of education, and to the next general assem- 
bly. The members of said board shall each receive three dol- 
lars a day and expenses for the time spent in such service, not 
to exceed five days in each year. Such per diem and expenses 
shall be paid by the treasurer of the institution. 

Sec. 13. Section 1186 of the Public Statutes is hereby 
repealed. 

Sec. 14. This act shall not be construed as establishing 
the right to said colleges to any further continuance of aid as 
specified in this act from this state or as affecting any question 
that may be presented to the educational commission appoint- 



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•ed by the governor by virtue of a joint resolution entitled: "A 
joint resolution relating to a commission to investigate the 
•educational system and conditions of Vermont," approved 
November 19, 1912, but the several rights, duties and obli- 
•gations of said colleges shall be determined by said commis- 
sion. The foregoing provisions of this section shall not apply 
to the provisions of section eight of this att. 

Sec. 15. This act shall take effect from its passage. 
Approved February 15, 1913. 



NO. 84. 

EXTENSION OF SERVICE OF STATE AGRICULTURAL 

COLLEGE. 
Conditioned on Federal Aid. 

Section 1. Appropriation, $2,000. 
"Section 2. Condition on which made. 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR AN APPROPRIATION FOR 
AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION SERVICE AT THE 
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICUL- 
TURAL COLLEGE, CONDITIONED ON FEDERAL 
LEGISLATION. 

It is hereby enacted hy the General Assembly of the State of 
Vermont : 

Section 1. The auditor of accounts is hereby directed, 
■on the approval of the governor, to draw his order on the first 
•day of July and January, in favor of the treasurer of the Uni- 
versity of Vermont and State Agricultural College, for a sum 
not exceeding two thousand dollars annually for the fiscal years 
ending June 30, 1914, and June 30, 1915, for the further sup- 
port of an agricultural extension service at said institution, 
and said sums shall be used solely for such purpose. 

Sec. 2. The preceding section shall become operative 
•only upon the enactment of federal legislation in behalf of agri- 
•cultural extension, and only in case the sum hitherto appro- 
priated by the general assembly is insufficient to meet the terms 
•of said federal legislation, and the auditor of accounts is here- 



58 

by directed to draw his orders only for as much of the sum ap- 
propriated by the preceding section as is needed to meet said 
terms. Should no federal legislation in behalf of agricultural 
extension be enacted prior to the meeting of the next general 
assembly, this act shall be deemed to be null and void. 

Sec. 3. This act shall take effect from its passage. 

Approved February 20, 1913. 



NO. 118. 
ELECTION OF TOWN OFFICERS. 

Section 1. Article 3. School director elected by a ballot. 

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 3426 OF THE PUBLIC- 
STATUTES, AS AMENDED BY SECTION 1 OF NO.. 
82 OF THE ACTS OF 1908 AND NO. 107 OF THE ACTS OF 
1910, RELATING TO THE ELECTION OR APPOINT- 
MENT OF TOWN ROAD COMMISSIONER AND 
OTHER TOWN OFFICERS. 

// is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of 
Vermont : 

Section 1. Section 3426 of the Public Statutes, as amend- 
ed by section 1 of No. 82 of the acts of 19'08 and by No. 107 of 
the acts of 1910, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 

Sec. 3426. At the annual meeting a town shall choose- 
from among the inhabitants thereof the following town oflicers, 
who shall serve until the next annual meeting and until others 
are chosen, unless otherwise provided by law or herein specified. 

1. A moderator. 

2. A town clerk. 

3. One school director for a term of three years who shall 
be elected by ballot. 

4. One lister for a term of three years who shall be elect- 
ed by ballot . 

5. One selectman for a term of three years who shall be- 
elected by ballot. 

6. One or two road commissioners who shall be elected' 
by ballot, unless appointed by the selectmen as hereinafter- 
provided. 



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7. An overseer of the poor. 

8. A collector of taxes, if the town so orders. 

9. One or more trustees of public money. 

10. A town treasurer. 

11. Three auditors. 

12. One or more grand jurors. 

13. A first constable and, if necessary, a second consta- 
ble. 

14. An agent to prosecute and defend suits in which the- 
town is interested. 

15. And may elect a tree warden. 

Each town shall have three selectmen, three school dir- 
reccors and three listers, and such selectmen, school directors 
and listers as are in office at the time of the passage of this act 
shall continue in office until the terms for which they were res- 
pectively elected shall expire. At each annual meeting one- 
selectman, one school director and one lister shall be elected, 
the term of office of each of whom shall be three years, but in 
towns so voting, one or two additional liscers or one or two ad- 
ditional selectmen may be elected for a term of one year each. 
A town shall, at each annual meeting, vote whether or not the- 
selectmen shall be empowered and authorized to appoint one 
or two road commissioners, the number to be determined by 
the town, and an article enabling a town so to empower and 
authorize the selectmen shall be inserted in the warning for 
such meeting. If the town votes so ro authorize and empower 
the selectmen, said selectmen shall forthwith appoint one or 
two road commissioners according to the instructions of the- 
town; but no citizen, if a resident of an incorporated village 
within such town, shall vote in town meeting on the question 
whether the road commissioners shall be appointed by the- 
selectmen, unless at least fifteen per cent of the last highway 
tax of such incorporated village has been paid to the town treas- 
urer to be expended upon the highways of the town outside of 
such incorporated village. Said road commisioners so appoint- 
ed by the selectmen shall serve until the next annual meeting, 
and until their successors are elected or appointed and qualified, 
A road commissioner may after hearing, be removed from office 
by the selectmen for cause. 

Sec. 2. The selectmen shall, within five days after the- 
annual meeting organize and elect a chairman from among; 
their number. 

Sec. 3. This act shall take efi^ect from its passage. 

Approved January 28, 1913. 



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NO. 119. 

RESTRICTIONS IN NUMBER OF OFFICES. 

"Section 1. Auditor shall not be school director. 

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 3477 OF THE PUBLIC 
STATUTES, AS AMENDED BY NO. 110 OF THE ACTS 
OF 1910, RELATING TO TOWN OFFICERS. 

// is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of 
Vermont : 

Section 1. Section 3477 of the Public Statutes, as amend- 
ed by No. 110 of the acts of 1910, is hereby amended so as to 
read as follows : 

Sec. 3477. A selectman shall not be first constable, col- 
lector of taxes, town treasurer, -lister, road commissioner or 
-auditor; provided, however, that in towns having not more than 
twenty-five legal voters, a selectman may also be elected a 
lister, or a road commissioner, or both. An auditor shall not 
be first constable . , collector of taxes, town treasurer, lister, 
road comftiissioner or school director; and no town official col- 
lecting, handling or disbursing the town's funds shall be an 
auditor. 

Approved November 8, 1912. 



NO. 120. 



SETTLEMENT OF ACCOUNTS BY TOWN OFFICERS. 



Section 2. Audit of school account shall be to end of school 
year only. 

Section '3. School directors to have accounts audited not 
less than 30 days before town meeting. (Nul- 
hfied by Sec. 8, No. 63, Acts of 1912.) 

'Section 4. Repeaiment of requirement of report by school 
board, (Substitute requirement in Sec. 8, No. 63, 
Acts of 1912.) 



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AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS 3498, 3509 AND 3512^ 
OF THE PUBLIC STATUTES, RELATING TO SET- 
TLEMENT OF ACCOUNTS BY TOWN OFFICERS. 

It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of 
Vermont : 

Section 1. Section 3498 of the Public Statutes is hereby 
amended so as to read as follows: 

Sec. 3498. Not less than thirty days and not more than 
forty days previous to each annual town meeting said treasurer 
shall settle with the auditors, and, on going out of ofhce, imme- 
diately therea'fter ; and when his term of ofihce expires, he shall, 
if not re-elected, pay to his successor the funds of the town in 
his ha^nds. 

Sec. 2. Section 3509 of the Public Statutes is hereby- 
amended so as to read as follows : 

Sec. 3509. Town auditors shall, at least thirty days be- 
fore each annual town meeting, examine and adjust the accounts - 
of town ofhcers, including the account which the treasurer is 
required to keep with the collector, and shall report such ac- 
counts, with the items thereof and the state of the town treasury, 
to the voters at least fifteen days before such annual town 
meeting. The annual auditing of school accounts shall be to- 
the end of the school year only. 

Sec. 3. Section 3512 of the Public Statutes is hereby 
amended so as to read as follows: 

Sec. 3512. The selectmen, town treasurer, town clerk, 
overseer of the poor, road commissioner, school directors, col- 
lector of taxes and all persons authorized to receive or disburse 
money belonging to a town shall, not less than thirty days and 
not more than forty days before each a^nnual town meeting, 
settle their accounts with the auditors of such town. If any 
such officer refuses or neglects to make such settlement, he- 
shall be ineligible to re-election for the year ensuing. 

Sec. 4. Section 994 of the Public Statutes as amended 
by section 7 of No. 65 of the acts of 1910, is hereby repealed. 

Approved November 12, 1912. 



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NO. 278. 

APPROPRIATION FOR STEAM HEATING PLANT AT 
CASTLETON NORMAL. 

"Section 1. Authorization of plant subject to approval by the 

governor. 
'Section 2. Appropriation, $7000. 

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE STATE BOARE? OF EDU- 
CATION TO PROVIDE A STEAM HEATING PLANT 
FOR THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL AT CASTLE- 
TON. 

// is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of 
Vermont : 

Section 1. The state board of education with the ap- 
proval of the governor is hereby authorized and directed to 
provide for the furnishing and installation of a .-team heating 
plant in x:onnection with the buildings of the state normal school 
sit Castleton. S^d board may adopt plans and make neces- 
sary contracts to carry out the purposes of this act. 

Sec. '2. The auditor of. accounts is hereby directed to 
draw his orders upon the requisitoin of said board for such 
-sums, not exceeding seven thousand dollars in the whole, as 
may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this act. 

Sec". 3. This act shall take effect from its passage. 

Approved February 11, 1913, 



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